CS371p Spring 2021 Week 2: Nathan Hoang
3 min readFeb 1, 2021
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I added concurrency, another CS upper division class, to my schedule. Since I joined the class late, I had a lot of catching up to do so I spent most of my time watching lectures from the previous week and working on a project that’s due this upcoming Tuesday. I attended lectures for my other classes as well.
Outside of schoolwork, I’ve been playing some Valorant with my friends and cousins lately. I also binged Attack on Titan starting from season 2 all the way to the current season. - What’s in your way?
My concurrency project and watching Attack on Titan has been taking almost all of my time, so I’m a little behind on the readings and small assignments from my other classes. I’ll be working on those soon. - What will you do next week?
Aside from catching up on readings and assignments, hopefully starting on the Collatz project and playing more Valorant :). - If you read it, what did you think of the makefile?
Although I’m not a huge fan of Perusall, reading some of the comments left by other students helped me understand some of the trickier parts of the Makefile. I enjoyed reading the Makefile and this should help Collatz be a bit easier to start. - What was your experience of Docker? (this question will vary, week to week)
I have a little experience with Docker, but Downing’s explanations definitely helped make everything understandable. I didn’t know that you could mount your own file system to a container, and I think that’s really cool. I don’t plan to install Docker though because it seems like a bit of a pain, and I already have VSCode set up to ssh into the lab machines. - What was your experience of assertions? (this question will vary, week to week)
I like assertions, I think they a great way to catch bugs. When I’m building out a program I often use assertions to preemptively find bugs. For testing purposes, unit tests are obviously better though. - What was your experience of unit tests? (this question will vary, week to week)
I think Google’s testing harness is awesome. It does everything that unit tests are supposed to do. - What made you happy this week?
My sister currently lives on campus, while I live at home. This past week I delivered a table to her and got to spend some time talking to her and it was definitely one of the highlights of this week. - What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip-of-the-week is that VS Code has a remote ssh tool that lets you ssh into a computer (such as the CS lab machines) and it’s useful for developing on a non-linux machine. That’s how I’m doing my labs for other CS classes and I plan to use it for OOP as well.
