Blog #6
What did you do this past week?
This past week, I finished up the voting project for this class. This project actually took less time than I expected. Having a partner really made this process a lot more efficient. I made fewer mistakes and our collective knowledge was much greater than my own. Outside of this class, I was preparing for an Undergraduate Research Forum that is being held at UT in a few months. I am creating a poster and a presentation with my research group. We spent this weekend pooling together our results in order to format it into a presentable form.
What’s in your way?
Nothing was really in my way this week. My partner and I worked well together and we finished relatively early, not needing to do much of the project last minute.
What will you do next week?
I have a project in AI that is due next week, so I will probably be spending the rest of this week and a majority of next week completing that. In addition, I will also be working on the presentation that I mentioned earlier.
What was your experience of containers, container adapters, and iterators?
These concepts were actually very fascinating for me. Since I came from a background mainly in Java and a little in Python, I never really thought too much about the backend implementation of iterators. One of the most interesting things I learned this week was the operator functions. As for the container/container adapters, it was mostly a nice review of the back end implementations of common data structures. Learning about deques was also very cool.
What made you happy this week?
This week, helping people during my office hours was very rewarding. Students seemed like they were putting together the pieces they gathered during lectures. In addition, they just finished their first assignment and I can see the effort they put into it.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip-of-the-week is the ut buy/sell/free Facebook page. It is a really nice place to sell your items that you are trying to get rid of. Obviously, its also a place you can buy cheap items. Common items on the page are textbooks, furniture, etc. The people on the page are UT students, so they are pretty trustworthy (I hope).
