CS373 Fall 2021: Week 3 — Bren Keeton

What did you do this past week?

I had a job interview on Tuesday, but otherwise I got started working on Collatz and did other general schoolwork.

What’s in your way?

I still have to finish up Collatz, so I’ll be spending all of tomorrow doing that! I also got the first project for my other CS class assigned so I’ll be figuring that out in the next couple of weeks.

What will you do next week?

Like I mentioned in the previous question, I’m going to finish Collatz and get started on my other project, but for the other work I have I’m going to try my best to start and get it done early.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #3: Continuous Integration?

The paper really made it seem like using Continuous Integration is a no-brainer. Having some experience with GitLab and it’s pipelines, modern technology has made it very easy to set up a basic CI system, and probably even more robust ones with little effort.

What was your experience of IsPrime and Collatz optimizations? (this question will vary, week to week)

If all of the other exercises are like IsPrime then I think I’ll be able to handle, but unfortunately I doubt that’s the case. The Collatz optimizations are very useful and also demonstrative of what we should be thinking about and doing for other projects.

What made you happy this week?

Going back to the job interview I had on Tuesday that I mentioned earlier: I got the job! It’s actually a part-time dev job so I’m very excited to get some more real world experience under my belt.

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

Trello is a good website for organizing a project and its various milestones and their necessary components. It works well for software projects, but you can also obviously use it for more general things.