Week 4: 23 Sep – 29 Sep

What did you do this past week?

This past week I worked on various homework assignments and had a few interviews. I also attended a few recruiting and organization events. My group met and kicked off our project by getting our project’s proposal approved and beginning the front-end of our project to meet IDB1’s deadline this coming Thursday.

What’s in your way?

I think what is in my way is my Algorithms exam on Tuesday, the many tasks my group and I still have to complete for IDB1, and the Grace Hopper Conference I will be attending from Tuesday to Friday. I will effectively be missing all of my classes starting from Tuesday afternoon to the end of the week. The amount of content I will be missing will definitely be overwhelming to catch up on over the weekend. Since my exam is on Tuesday, I won’t be able to contribute too much to my SWE project until after that, but that will be after I land in Orlando for the conference. Therefore, this week will definitely be one of the busiest weeks of the semester.

What will you do next week?

I will be studying for my Algorithms exam on Tuesday, finishing up the SWE project with my group, and attending the Grace Hopper conference. Because I will be flying out to Orlando right after my exam, I will be missing a lot of class. Thus, I will be taking a lot of time to catch up on all the material and assignments I miss.

What was your experience in learning about for in, iterators, and reduce()?

There were so many little semantics within each one that I’m sure I would’ve overlooked if I had attempted to learn these topics on my own time. It had also been a while since I dealt with iterators so it was a good refresher. Most of the information I learn I usually relate to its equivalent in Java, the language I am most proficient int, but reduce() was something fairly new that I couldn’t immediate connect to something similar in Java. It was definitely interesting to learn about!

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

Attending the biweekly programming competitions hosted by UTPC is a great way to interview prep! Last school year I attended every single one and I feel like each competition has a great variety of questions to do ranging from easier ones to the more difficult ones. Also, each competition’s questions align to a particular theme and it makes each question exciting and memorable to do! (not sponsored)