OOP blog post #4: Alisha Zuté
What did you do this past week?
In the past week I worked really hard to finish out all of my projects. I had the OOP one due Monday, Modern Web Apps due Thursday, and a Neural Networks project due today (Sunday) so pretty much all of my time went into trying to get all of those finished and turned in.
What’s in your way?
The main thing in my way right now is my inability to find a job. It feels like a giant guillotine hanging over my semester knowing that I don’t have a job yet for when I graduate and it’s causing my stress to go up exponentially. I am also taking intensive Russian this semester which is taking way more time than I thought. It feels like we have 2–3 hours of homework everyday on top of meeting 6 hours a week, which is just a lot of material when trying to learn a language. I feel like I don’t have time to actually process anything that goes on in that class.
What will you do next week?
In the next week I will start on project two for this class as well as for my Modern Web Apps and Neural Networks classes. Career fair is also this week so I need to spend a lot of time preparing for that and making sure I have all my applications in a row.
What was your experience of exceptions, voting, and strcmp? (this question will vary, week to week)
Exceptions seemed pretty typical in C++, so it was not a huge shock. Voting seems like a really interesting problem to solve so I am happy about that. I am a little stressed at the lack of starter code, I feel like that is going to take a while to get up and running before I can even start on the actual coding the voting part. I missed friday’s class so I need to catch up on learning about strcmp.
What made you happy this week?
I hurt my foot pretty bad early last week so I was really happy when I found out that nothing was broken and it started healing way faster than I expected. I can even walk semi-normally already which is really exciting. I also needed to get x-rays which was pretty interesting because I think x-rays are really cool to look at.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is google colab because I am using it for my neural networks class. It gives you really easy access to a GPU and even lets you pull changes to your code directly from github as it runs.
