CS371p Blog Post #9: Alisha Zuté
What did you do this past week?
In the past week I focused on finishing up and turning in my allocator project. It turned out to be a lot more difficult than I had planned so I did not get it finished in time so that one day extension was a life-saver. I also had projects due in other classes and tests to grade and multiple interviews so it was a pretty busy week.
What’s in your way?
There is not much in my way at the moment. I don’t have anything major due this week so I have a little bit of time to relax and get started early on my next round of projects. The only real issue I have at the moment is just mental stress from not having a set job offer for next year yet.
What will you do next week?
In the next week I will get started on all of my upcoming projects, including project four for this class. I also need to grade some papers and go to an interview.
If you read it, what did you think of Ethical CS?
I enjoyed Ethical CS. I had heard a lot of it before through various ethics classes but it is something that is important to me so it was nice to take a look at some of the ethical issues in computing again, as well as discuss some way to make ethical decisions.
What was your experience of lambdas, initializations, std::initializer_list, and std::vector? (this question will vary, week to week)
Unfortunately I had to miss multiple classes this week due to interviews so I was not able to get to the lectures and learn this new material. I plan on watching the recordings sometime soon so I am all caught up on these topics.
What made you happy this week?
One thing that made me happy this week was having some free time this weekend. I’m trying some new hobbies (knitting a blanket is very hard apparently) and doing some reading. I also had a close friend get a great job offer which made me really happy to hear.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is the Java runnable interface. I had a question about implementing multithreading come up in a technical interview and I had never done it before in Java so it was really useful to hear about the runnable interface.
