What did you do this past week?
I completed the Collatz project, learned a ton about C++.
What‘s in your way?
The second project! I feel like we need to try a lot of things before we can get close to the solution. Also, Professor Downing purposely provided undetailed instructions, forcing us to pretty much need to ask a lot of questions for clarification like in a real-world software development situation.
What will you do next week?
I am actually taking CS373 as well, so the first thing I need to do is to make a nice personal website first and put it on UTCS domain. The next two things will be completing the Netflix project we have this week and work on project for CS373 as well.
What was your experience of exceptions, consts, and Boost serialization?
My experience with the exception has been pretty good. I am more impressed by the use case of consts which allow programmers to define variables in even greater detail and specification. I have not tried to Boost serialization yet but I will do that very soon.
How are you doing and holding up? What’s been most helpful for you in terms of support at this time?
I am doing pretty fine. My favorite thing to do in a day before getting a meal is listening to music. It makes me so relax and clam in a way that I feel it supports me a great deal in this difficult time for everyone.
What made you happy this week?
I watched some videos about lions living in the Russian zoos. The feeder saved a wounded lion and later they became very good friend. And the lion introduces a lot of other lions to the feeder. So I just find that makes me heart and happy.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week is GCP, Google Cloud Platform. I learned how to deploy an application on to GCP which is actually a very easy thing to do. So I would definitely encourage other classmates to try it out. I will also try AWS in the future so maybe I can compare the performance between the two as well as pricing.
