CS373 Fall 2021: Thomas Connor Thompson
What did you do this past week?
This past week I worked on my part of the project for the IDB. I set up the back-end for this phase by adding an API call that will query our database and have it do all the sorting and searching that we need for the front-end. For the front-end I hooked up a search bar in order to utilize this new API and tested it until everything was working.
What’s in your way?
Nothing much is in the way at the moment. I’m really excited for the end of the semester, it’s been a real busy one for me and I’ll be enjoying some time off soon.
What will you do next week?
Next week I will celebrate finishing phase 3 of the IDB project and see what needs to get done for the final phase.
If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #12: More Getters and Setters?
I thought the paper was interesting, though I felt like it was talking about a lot of things that were ubiquitous when talking about tech in it’s time but not really so now, so I had to look up some of the tools and paradigms they were referencing while making their point. I also thought it got sort of dense in the middle and had a little trouble understanding what all the code snippets were trying to do.
What was your experience of cross join, theta join, natural join, and SQL? (this question will vary, week to week)
This week was fun because most of it was doing the little hackerrank exercises and I always end up enjoying those. It was really useful learning a little bit about SQL and it helped me to understand more of what’s going on when I’m working with the database for the IDB project.
What made you happy this week?
This week I caught up with some family I haven’t talked to in a while and I was happy to hear them. I also watched Arcane on Netflix and as a huge fan of animation it really made my week, it is an absolutely amazing show, ~40 minutes of animation an episode is something that really doesn’t get done usually, and they still manage to just pack it with detail.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is sort of an obvious one, but I had trouble testing my IDB project initially and so was just sort of writing code blindly, but I got it working fully recently and can test the whole project end to end and it is really helpful once you get it set up and with hot-reloading you can see your changes take place right in front of you, super useful.
