CS 373 Spring 2021 Week 10: Joseph Graham
1. What did you do this past week
This past week my team and I finished up phase 2 of our internet database and began working on phase 3. We met up to make a game plan so that we can hopefully finish on time with no hiccups!
2. What’s in your way?
This past phase took a bit more than we thought, and unfortunately, we had a partner get sick so we received a small extension to make up for that. This means though, we are a bit behind on starting our next phase and will need to pick up the pace to finish phase 3 on time.
3. What will you do next week?
We decided to make a spreadsheet of each goal we want to accomplish each day until we get to the deadline, with each day detailing what we accomplish as we go along. I think this is a fantastic idea and will make us more organized and let me know what to put here for each blog! This week on the backend, we plan on implementing sorting and filtering within our API calls, which will spread the workload between our team easier, so that the front end doesn’t do all the functionality in this phase.
4. If you read it, what did you think of the Dependency Inversion Principle?
The Dependency Inversion Principle sounds complex but is a simple concept necessary for making well-designed code that is not rigid, fragile, or immobile. The principle basically states that high-level modules should not depend upon low-level modules, and instead, both should depend upon abstractions. The examples and drawings given in the paper are great and make this principle much easier to understand.
5. What was your experience of +, *, ** and decorators? (this question will vary, week to week)
I think everyone struggled a little this week grasping the concepts, myself included. The first time around doing the make-iterable hackerrank was a bit rough, especially with understanding how the decorator works. The next exercise we did, make-container, made things a little clearer, but I’ll need to rewatch the lectures to fully understand.
6. What made you happy this week?
I was finally able to get a vaccine on Thursday! I’m super pumped to get my next one in 3 weeks and hope that things will start to go back to normal as more people get theirs.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
If you haven't filled out the UT COVID-19 vaccine form, here’s a link: https://redcap.dellmed.utexas.edu/surveys/?s=FNJMNYKH4N
Make sure to check your email for a message to “create your athenahealth account” to schedule your appointment. Try to do this on a computer instead of a mobile browser if you can, because it was a lot clearer how to schedule an appointment that way. The sooner everyone gets their vaccine, the more likely we are to have a normal next semester to learn software development so go out and get one!