CS 371P Spring 2021: Entry 9

What did you do this past week?

This past week I started on and finished the Darwin project. This was a lot of work to complete in a couple of days but luckily it was fairly intuitive. By only implementing the simple creatures like food and hopper and testing before implementing the others, debugging was a lot faster and easier. I also did my Cloud Computing assignment on Kubernetes.

What’s in your way?

Not much is in my way as of now, I just have a few lectures on Cloud Computing that I need to catch up on. I also have to catch up on some lectures in my Interpersonal Communication Theory class.

What will you do next week?

Next week I will catch up on my lectures as I mentioned earlier and maybe get started on the last OOP project. I also have to do some planning for graduation.

If you read it, what did you think of the More getters and setters?

I think this week’s readings helped give more clarification on how to handle and build solutions around classes without having to use getters and setters. After completing the Darwin project, this article made more sense with our implementation in mind.

What was your experience of sequence containers, container adapters, and associative containers?

This week’s lectures were pretty intuitive. They felt like a little bit of a review since we had similar lecture content in SWE, except they were in Python. However, reviewing the similarities and differences between vectors, lists, and deques was useful.

What made you happy this week?

My friends and I are going on a trip to New York in a week and a half, so we did the planning and bookings this past week. That was pretty exciting. I also enjoyed playing Wild Rift (a mobile game) with my friends.

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

This is from a week ago, but I saw a cool video uploaded by Michael Reeves called Teaching a Robot Dog to Pee Beer that I thought was very interesting. When he was describing his coding process, it reminded me a lot of our Neural Networks final project in which we had to program a driver for ice hockey. The AI for the Robot Dog beer cup detection reminded me of our puck detection and our action handler had similar looking code, too. Either way it’s a fun video and I recommend giving it a watch if you haven’t already.