Blogs: Week of 19 Oct — 25 Oct
What did you do this past week?
This past week, for OOP, I didn’t do much. I mainly tried to find a partner for the Darwin project in our usual breakout rooms, but no one was available to partner up. In addition to this, I have a pretty messy schedule at this point, so I’m probably just going to forgo a partner and do this project myself. I kind of drove myself into a mess last time I did a project on my own, since I didn’t start on time, but I think I’ll be OK this time.
What’s in your way?
For this class, the only thing in my way is that I don’t have a trustworthy partner, but that’s something I believe I can easily work around.
What will you do next week?
Next week, for this class, I plan to finish the entire Darwin project. I have a bit of a break from my other classes at the moment, so I want to get it out of the way before the workload increases again.
If you read it, what did you think of Ethical CS?
I thought the material was interesting, in the sense that it posed many interesting dilemmas resulting from new technologies and gave thoughtful examples, but at the same time I found it a bit dissatisfactory because there was just a lot of discussion without any conclusion. I also found it a bit odd that the ethical and moral results of new technology was attempted to be calculated (when they tried finding the expected results of some decision), which I thought drove away the human aspect that I expected the class to entail.
What was your experience of lambdas, initializations, std::initializer_list, and std::vector?
I thought the content was quite interesting. I’ve largely never heard of most of these topics, but I can easily see their power and how useful they can be, so I enjoyed learning about it.
What made you happy this week?
This week, I was happy to have a bit of a break from school and just have a few days of fun with my friends. The break was a relief in the light of more challenging work to come.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is to try rubber ducky programming. I don’t have a physical duck, but I find the process to emulate pair programming pretty well.