CS373 Fall 2020 Week 8: Caitlin O’Callaghan

What did you do this past week?

This past week was really hectic with the project and midterms. This past week my group spent a really extensive amount of time trying to get AWS amplify set up with docker to only eventually abandon it this Saturday. We also got the Google Maps API working on some of our pages, and pagination for all of our tables which was exciting.

What’s in your way?

This week we spent so much time trying to figure out AWS amplify, that we otherwise would’ve spent on our website, so that stood in our way. Now, we are just trying to finish everything up with what time we have left so hopefully everything goes smoothly.

What will you do next week?

This week we are finishing up the project, we’ve been working almost the entire weekend and probably will be very busy up until the deadline. Then I have another midterm on Friday that I will be studying for.

If you read it, what did you think of The Liskov Substitution Principle?

I thought it was a very useful concept, and that it is important to keep in mind as well as the open closed principle to write lasting and efficient code that won’t have to be modified. I do feel sometimes though it’s easy to overlook these things and feel like you’ll have time for them later, when it’s actually best to take it into consideration from the start.

What was your experience of Test #1?

I didn’t do as well as I hoped. I felt that I was capable of doing all of the problems we were given but the time limit stressed me out. At times I struggled to focus and think through problem because I was anxious about running out of time.

What made you happy this week?

This week, knowing that the week is finally over and I will be able to get more sleep soon made me happy LOL.

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

My tip of the week is to use quicktype.io for creating your interfaces based off your APIs. I believe it was Larry that showed this to my group in office hours.