CS373 Fall 2020: Stephen Zheng

The following is for blog entry #12 for CS373.

What did you do this past week?

For SWE, not much, although I did a lot for OOP this week. We got our grade back for phase 3 and my team did pretty well. Outside the project, I attended lectures like usual and took the daily quizzes.

What’s in your way?

Nothing for now, but I intend to start working on phase 4 of the project for SWE.

What will you do next week?

Nothing planned for now, but I intend to start working on phase 4 of the project.

If you read it, what did you think of The New Methodology?

I thought that it was pretty easy to understand. It was interesting to learn why agile methodologies became popular and also what was the legacy before them. Test Driven Development is something I have encountered as something that came out of a previous era of coding, from Extreme Programming.

What was your experience of SQL? (this question will vary, week to week)

Personally, I really enjoyed learning about and using SQL. It is easy to understand and very intuitive, perhaps even more so than Python. Both of these languages are leagues above stuff like C++ so I really appreciate them. For me, I already had some understanding of SQL from interviews, so that helped with my understanding of SQL and how it works before hand.

What made you happy this week?

I accepted an offer from a company that I liked this week, which took a lot of stress off my shoulders. It feels great to be done with job hunting and interviews for the rest of the semester and next semester, although I might try to look for a co-op for the fall.

Also, my League of Legends team went 2nd place at yesterday’s virtual Clash tournament. Not first, but much better than we expected considering that half of our team members have barely played/practiced.

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

Use VSCode to highlight compile errors on your programs without even needing to compile the code. Saves a lot of time, especially when there are a lot of compile bugs.