CS373 Spring 2021: Siddhi Bhave
Week #3
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I mainly worked on Collatz and made sure I was following the workflow correctly and getting a hang of GitLab. I also had another lab for my other CS class so I also worked on that as well. Additionally, I enjoyed the good weather this week by going outside for walks and runs.
2. What’s in your way?
Right now the thing that is in my way is my lack of motivation. I usually have a lot of motivation when I am under pressure but now that I have completed assignments for all my classes, I have become a little lazy. Hopefully when I get the next assignments my motivation will come back.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I have a couple of assignments due for my non CS classes so I will get than done. I also have some last minute things to clean up for Collatz like getting the git SHA and formatting my code and adding comments.
4. If you read it, what did you think of the Continuous Integration?
This is the first class where I was introduced Continuous Integration for the projects and it seems extremely useful, especially in group projects. It keeps everything organized and keeps track of every project milestone. I am surprised that it was not introduced to us in earlier classes since it is so applicable in the work environment.
5. What was your experience of Collatz? (this question will vary, week to week)
I thought that the general algorithm for Collatz was straightforward but I ran into some bugs when implementing the optimization, however it was nothing too complicated. I thought the toughest part of this assignment was getting used to all the other stuff in GitLab like the issues and pipeline and the workflow in general
6. What was your experience of exceptions? (this question will vary, week to week)
I haven’t used try except blocks that much so I am glad I got a formal introduction to them in class. I makes a lot of sense and I can see how it can be a useful tool
7. What made you happy this week?
The great weather made me really happy this week. I was also happy that I got to hang out with my friends.
8. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
GitLab has some cool interesting features in its latest updates like marking changes as viewed in merge requests and there are autocomplete GitLab CI variables in VS code and can view code review comments in VS code.