CS371p Spring 2021: Week 4

What did you do this past week?

This first part of the past week I spent finishing up and submitting the Collatz project. After finishing up the project I took some time to re-watch some of the lectures from this week and worked on the paper that is due this Sunday. I also spent some time working on a project for my networks class.

What’s in your way?

My networking class assignment’s due date is coming up shortly, so most of my focus will be on getting that finished up and submitted on time. It is a partner project as well so I will have to also find time to meet up with my partner to test our project.

What will you do next week?

I should be done with the networking assignment before next week so I will have more time to work on material for this class as well as work on material for my networking class.

If you read it, what did you think of the Pair Programming?

I think pair programming is something everyone should experience and is an essential skill to the industry. Most times when working in the industry you are working with at least one other person if not a whole team. It’s important to know how to work well with others especially when to code you all are writing is accomplishing a like goal. Being able to read and understand other people’s code as well as write code that is easy to understand is important especially at the industry level.

What was your experience of operators, pointers, and references?

I am extremely grateful that someone slowed it down and finally explained what each pointer/reference syntax meant and actually did. I feel like in the past I had a basic understanding of what each thing meant but now I feel like I have a good understanding.

What made you happy this week?

As someone who has lived in Texas their whole life, it is always fun to see it snow. Getting to see snow is pretty rare for me so that was pretty exciting and fun for me.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

Repl.it is my tip of the week. Repl is an online tool that allows you to quickly test/compile code for a wide variety of languages. This makes it so you don’t have to download any IDEs or create any local files.