CS 373 Fall 2020 Week 5: Caitlin O’Callaghan
- What did you do this past week?
My group and I began work on our project but ended up spending an extensive amount of time finishing up our proposal and working on our models. We are now starting the actual websites and fingers crossed we can make progress much more quickly.
2. What’s in your way?
This week struggling to make the models independent and find restful api sources was in my group’s way. Individually, midterm season beginning was in my way and I struggled to manage my time and my sleep, which messed with my productivity.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week my group and I will pick up the pace with our project so we can finish on time, and individually I will try to utilize my weekend to “get ahead” so I can have a more relaxed week and form good habits around study and sleep which help me stay more focused in class.
4. What was your experience of types, object models, and iterators? (this question will vary, week to week)
I learned that in Java there is a “forest of types” and a tree of classes branching from object and that in python there is a tree of types branching from object. I also learned about some of the iterable types in python such as list, tuple, and set and that a for loop can iterate over these sort of implicitly like java.
5. What made you happy this week?
This week getting to spend a lot of time practicing the violin and oboe made me really happy! I also spent a good amount of time listening to some violin pieces and I think that helped me improve in my practice as well.
6. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week is the video speed controller extension in chrome, because it is very helpful for asynchronous classes or even online courses that you might take to learn about something like app development. I’ve found that for some of my courses my professors talk way too slow but for others, like in a coding course I’m currently doing, they talk much too fast and it is nice to be able to put it at the precise speed I want it.
