CS373 Spring 2022: Luca Santos
- What did you do this past week?
I mostly spent my time working on Collatz and adjusting to some of my in-person classes. Thursday and Friday were somewhat unusual but not as bad as I imagined it could have gotten.
2. What’s in your way?
Similar to last week I feel like I have been too caught up in my own thoughts lately, which in of itself is not necessarily a bad thing I do not think, I just wish I could be more present.
3. What will you do next week?
Finish my last Collatz optimizations, and continue working on some personal projects. Not completely related but I also need to desperately do groceries.
4. What did you think of Paper #3: Continuos Integration?
CI is a topic that I had some amount of familiarity with. It was extremely interesting, however, to understand the early stages of what has now become such a software engineering standard; most modern tech companies seem adopt something like a CI/CD model in their tech stack implicitly, so it is easy to overlook its history and early stages of adoption.
As a piece of swe history it was extremely insightful, and as a general framework it can be incredibly helpful to think about and understand current integration systems available to us today.
5. What was your experience of UnitTests, Coverage, and IsPrime? (this question will vary, week to week)
I have used the unit test framework and have read about coverage in the past. The internship I had during last summer had much to do with testing frameworks and so I also had to become familiar with unit testing then. These are an incredible tool offered in abundance through a variety of intuitive libraries that facilitate the development process and our productivity and satisfaction with the code we produce.
6. What made you happy this week?
Someone reached out to me, and it made me incredibly happy.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
No one will ever get you off your bed every morning and do your work for you, so stick to what you like!
