CS373 Fall 2020: Brandon Nsidinanya
What did you do this past week?
This past week, I mostly just caught up with school work. I’m currently taking 3 Computer Science classes, all of which are coding intensive, so I’m trying my best to keep up with all of my projects this semester. I haven’t started on the Collatz project, yet, but I’ll get started on this coming week.
What’s in your way?
Right now, what’s currently in my way is setting up Docker environment. I know it’s probably not super necessary for this assignment, but I want to set it up ahead of time because I know that it’ll be important for the other project moving forward, and it’s probably just a good tool to know how to use in general.
What will you do next week?
Next week I will set up Docker and start working on the Collatz project and continue to keep up with all my school work.
What was your experience of assertions, unit tests, and coverage?
Assertions, unit tests, and coverage is something that I’ve already went over in a previous Downing class, so I didn’t really learn anything new regarding those three topics last week. It was a good refresher, however. I admittedly had forgotten what coverage was and how it was important while writing tests for code, so I’m glad that the professor went over it.
How are you doing and holding up? What’s been most helpful for you in terms of support at this time?
For now, I’m doing alright. This semester seems like it’s going to be kind of tough, so I’m a little stressed about that. But since my classes haven’t become too much of a burden yet, there’s no need to stress about it for the time being. It was helpful in the past to hang out with friends after a long day or to study with friends for some moral support during the semester, but because of the current circumstances, that hasn’t been possible. However, just being in contact with them has proven to be helpful for support.
What made you happy this week?
Something that has made me happy this week was seeing some progress in a side project that I’m working on. I had been struggling to make some progress on this project for months, but finally, in the past 2 weeks, I’ve been seeing some improvement.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick-of-the-week is VSCode + SSH. I was recently introduced to this workflow a couple weeks ago, and it has been very helpful in working on projects for my classes. It’s a VSCode extension that allows you to SSH into a remote machine and edit code remotely through the IDE.
