CS 371p Fall 2020: Kent Hansen #6
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I finished working on the Voting project with my partner. We started early and met most days the week before so we paced ourselves well and finished the project early. I also started looking at the project spec for Allocator to get familiarized with what I will have to do.
2. What’s in your way?
I need to coordinate with my new partner to find a time that works to get started on the project. I hope I can establish a similar pattern for working on this project to make sure I’m not overwhelmed with finishing right before it’s due. I also need to learn more about how to implement the project because just glancing at the source code left me with a lot of questions.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I will read the source code in more depth and work with my partner to get started. I hope that by next week we can get most of the way through the project. I also want to start studying for the exam and make sure I understand the content we’ve covered so far.
4. If you read it, what did you think of Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
I really enjoyed reading the article as it was an insightful and well-articulated look at a very serious and entrenched problem in the tech field. I think it’s very important for us as students to be familiar with the systemic issues that are prevalent in the field we are pursuing so that we can be conscious of them and work to overcome them as we enter our careers.
5. What was your experience of arrays, equal(), and iterators? (this question will vary, week to week)
I enjoyed the lectures that covered arrays, equal(), and iterators. It was interesting to learn that C++ has many features in its standard library that make it much more useful and powerful than C and which are similar but in many ways distinct from Java.
6. What made you happy this week?
This weekend I went camping just outside of Austin and had a lot of fun. I don’t go camping very often so it was an interesting experience figuring out how to sleep comfortably and set up a tent.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick-of-the-week is QGIS, a tool I started using last week for my job. It works similarly to ArcGIS but it is open source and works on Linux and Mac while ArcGIS only works on Windows. I’m still trying to learn how to use it but it seems like a powerful tool for exploring geospatial data.