CS371g Spring 2022: Sang Pham
1. What did you do this past week?
The past week I’ve started to work on project #4 Darwin. Even though it took me some time to get the makefile to work correctly with the help of the TA during help hours, I think I make good progress on it. On another node, I’ve been resting from volleyball because I got rotator cuff tendinitis from playing too much.
2. What’s in your way?
My arm still healing and the pain is a little annoying even when I’m typing. Other than that, I wasn’t able to complete exercise #6 and I’m worried it will drag my grade down in the future exercise. I wasn’t sure what to practice for it and due to timing constrain we weren’t able to get help during the exercise as well.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I will continue to work on project #4 and hopefully will be able to finish it on time. I also planned to do some at-home workouts or yoga to make up for the lack of exercise since my arm is still in the process of healing.
4. What did you think of Paper 11. More getters and setters?
I think paper 11 is a more in-deep analysis of the last paper and it provides a good example related to the user interface. Even though I don’t have much experience working with UI systems, I think it is still a good warning to keep in mind to follow OOP ways of thinking.
5. What was your experience of std::queue, std::priority_queue, std::set, and friends?
I think it is very interesting and useful to learn about what container to use for each container adapter. priority_queue seems like a lot of pain to implement and I’m glad we didn’t have to do it by ourselves. The concept of the friend function is pretty new to me and I think I would use it for project #4 if it comes up.
6. What made you happy this week?
I’m really happy this week because one of the students from a class I’m helping with gave me and other TAs a gift bag full of candies, chocolate, etc.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip-of-the-week this week is Yoga, I’ve been doing Yoga at least once a week. I found it works really well for volleyball and especially for my back since I spent most of my time sitting. I would recommend this YouTube channel because she provides Yoga practice for a specific area of your body.
Thank you for reading!
