CS373 Fall 2020: Week of 7 Sep — 13 Sep

What did you do this past week?

This past week I worked on my assignments for Sofware Engineering and Modern Web Applications. I also wrote an essay for my Foundation of Business Law and Ethics class and did all the assignments for my Marketing class. I have also been applying to jobs and have done a lot of coding challenges. It is kind of burning me out if I am being honest.

What’s in your way?

As usual, I think the only thing in my way is myself. I tend to procrastinate and I feel that all the resources I need to succeed are there. It’s just the first step to start that is always the hardest for me.

What will you do next week?

This week I will focus on my Network Security and Privacy class which I have been neglecting. It requires us to run a virtual machine and I am not sure if my budget laptop can handle that which has caused me to postpone it.

What was your experience of Collatz, the starter code, the makefile, its optimizations, and exceptions? (this question will vary, week to week)

Collatz itself was not that difficult I think. What I really struggled with was the workflow. There were a lot of things that we were supposed to do and even as I have turned it in I don’t think I have completed all the steps. I feel like I forgot something but I am not entirely sure.

Regarding exceptions, I have never used them personally. I am more used to using exit codes in C but I don’t think using exceptions will pose that big of a challenge. Using the object for exceptions will take some time though.

What made you happy this week?

I talked to my friends on Zoom which was nice. We are all not in Austin due to coronavirus but I hope that eventually, we will see each other in person again.

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

My tip of the week is the Docker Plugins in VScode. The first one is the simple Docker plugin. This shows your images in VScode and you can start and stop them there. The other one that I think is more important is the Remote Containers plugin. This one lets you actually open the container and edit it in VScode as if it were in your local files. Really made coding Collatz easy.