CS373 Fall 2021: Thomas Connor Thompson

What did you do this past week?

This past week I enjoyed wrapping up phase two of the IDB project we had been doing and enjoyed taking a little time before starting up again for phase three. I also had a great time catching up with friends at a little Halloween party that they threw.

What’s in your way?

Last week’s quizzes were a lot harder for me than any of the other weeks. I think I might need to rewatch some of the lectures and pay closer attention to what’s happening during lecture. With Friday’s class as well even during the lecture, I noticed I had a lot of trouble following along so I plan on asking a lot more questions this week.

What will you do next week?

Next week I will help my team get started on phase three of the IDB project and start changing around the back-end to serve up search and filter results for the front-end to use.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #10: Dependency Inversion Principle?

This paper gave a great framework for working with modules that had higher or lower functionality and argued that changes in a lower module should not propagate into a higher module that used the lower one. Utilizing an abstraction of the lower module that provides the tools the higher module needs allows for things to change in the lower module and you’d maybe just need to change the abstraction in between modules.

What was your experience of =, *, ** and regular expressions? (this question will vary, week to week)

It was interesting to see how =, *, ** are used in python, I had a little bit of familiarity with them but it was good to see everything fleshed out during lecture. With RegEx, I will be rewatching Friday’s lecture in order to get a better understanding because I had a little bit of trouble following along with what was happening and the syntax involved.

What made you happy this week?

This week I really enjoyed spending the weekend catching up with some of my friends and family, this has been a really busy school year for me so it’s great when I get this kind of chance.

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

My pick-of-the-week is that if you have a little free time this week, you should definitely schedule some time and go see Dune, it was a fantastic movie and I’m excited to see the discourse around it as it sort of enters the public mind, as I feel there is a lot there worth discussing.