CS 373 Spring 2021 Week 7: Zein Fakhreddine
What did you do this past week?
Last week my group and I finished up phase 1. I was really happy with my group everyone seemed to contribute an equal amount and our skills seem to be diversified enough to make doing the project relatively smooth. As always I also worked on catching up on work from other classes.
What’s in your way?
I have a lot of assignments due this coming week so I have to work hard to stay on top of that. As far as CS 373 I have to look up what's ahead and phase 2 and meet with my group to see what needs to get done.
What will you do next week?
Continue to meet with my project group and discuss what needs to be done for phase 2. I need to work on being more on top of things for my other classes.
If you read it, what did you think of the Open-Closed Principle?
I’ve studied this principle before in another class. I find the principle interesting and useful but can find them hard to implement in practice. As with all the principles we’ve read about I’m gonna try to consider them when implementing them into my project code. I know implementing some of these principles can take a lot of upfront cost but definitely pay off in the long run.
What was your experience of iterators and reduce2?
When we first started learning about iterators I was wondering what practical usage they would have. That’s why I really enjoyed reduce2. One of the members of my breakout room showed me a solution using iterators that made the problem trivial compared to be “non-iterator” solution.
What made you happy this week?
I’m trying to start running on a regular basis and I was actually able to keep it up this week.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick-of-the-week is WSL. If you have a windows OS I can’t stress how useful WSL has been to me as a developer. It lets you run a Linux environment through the command line which can directly interact with your own Windows files. Often I’ll come across Bash code or CLI’s that can only be run on Linux and WSL can always handle it.
