2 min readFeb 6, 2022
- What did you do this past week? I played racquetball with my three close friends and then watched modern family at their apartment. I experimented and made a few new meals including a toasted sandwich using a blowtorch. My quidditch team had our first practice of the semester this Sunday.
- What’s in your way? I’ve been getting distracted too easily lately which has been impacting my opportunity of getting ahead. Especially with the snow days, I could have finished all of my assignments and done some other logistical things I have on my TODO list, but instead, I chose to relax (which honestly isn’t a terrible option either).
- What will you do next week? I will be going to the Kansas v. Texas basketball game and hopefully watching our team absolutely decimate KU (which probably won’t happen but hey, a man can always hope). My parents are coming up from Fort Worth and watching it too and watching Texas win would be fun because both of my parents are from Kansas and happen to be lifelong KU fans.
- What did you think of Paper #3: Continuous Integration? I actually really enjoyed the paper. It was kind of superficial about CI and how it is actually implemented in industry, but that probably would have made way too long of an article. I did learn the basics about the advantages of CI though.
- What was your experience of UnitTests, Coverage, and IsPrime? (this question will vary, week to week) They were fine. I liked how we saw how the use of UnitTests over asserts is much more informative. I also though coverage and tools like gcov are super useful as they actually prove how useful the tests are. For example, you can have like a million tests but if they only actually check 10% of the code, then they aren’t very useful. IsPrime was fine, my group and I got it done quickly and it was a relief seeing how smoothly it went. There were a lot of nuances though that could make more complicated exercises difficult though.
- What made you happy this week? I was happy when school was cancelled for a couple days and I enjoyed the break from classes. I got to relax at home and my power and water stayed on, unlike the freeze last year.
- What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week? My pick-of-the-week is this api for getting stats about the NBA: https://github.com/swar/nba_api. I’ll be honest, it isn’t documented the greatest and it’s a tad difficult to use, but it does provide interesting data that you can use in a wide range of projects.
