CS373 Fall 2021: Thomas Connor Thompson
What did you do this past week?
This past week my team and I were able to make significant headway into the new phase of our IDB project. We were able to get our back-end on AWS and populate our database with the data we’ll need to give to our front-end in order to make our instance pages for the models.
What’s in your way?
Nothing much is in my way at the moment, I’m excited for a new week and cooler weather and plan to make the most of fall while it is here!
What will you do next week?
Next week I plan on implementing my share of the IDB project by fleshing out the API endpoints for the model I am responsible for and update our frontend to utilize them. I will also catch up on Friday’s class because I unfortunately overslept and missed class that day.
If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #8: Liskov Substitution Principle?
I enjoyed it and it proposed a really good framework when it comes to building out libraries for other programmers to use. I think that the ability to recognize when to employ these methods is one of the most important parts of it, so it was nice the paper included that intuition. I hope we are able to go over the way we could implement these principles in python.
What was your experience of comprehensions, generators, and yield? (this question will vary, week to week)
It was something I had no prior experience using but it was really interesting to see and I’m excited for use cases for these things to come up.
What made you happy this week?
This week I tore deep into my Spotify recommends and came out the other end with some amazing new artists that I need to listen to and that’s something that always picks up my mood. And the weather is finally getting cooler, which is always something I love.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip-of-the-week is to definitely get to work on IDB phase 2 as soon as you can as from the way I look at it, the difficulty is sort of front loaded, if you already finished up your front-end for phase 1, I don’t believe it will take long to adapt it to use your back-end but for me SQL and developing a working API is all uncharted territory for me.
