- What did you do this past week?
This week I started looking over the requirements and the setup required for the Collatz project. Many of the concepts, especially Unit Testing, I am familiar with, however I need to familiarize myself with the specific implementations that we will be using. - What’s in your way?
Just for this week, I had big tournament this weekend and many guests, so I had very little time on hand. Hopefully next week I can get the project finished. Currently setting up the environments and workspace has been different but not entirely confusing. - What will you do next week?
I plan on attending all the classes, working and finishing the project, and finally finishing all of the other assignments given to us during the week. For the project, I hope to get the solution around Monday or Tuesday so I can get to work on optimizing the code. - What was your experience of assertions, unit tests, coverage, and continuous integration? (this question will vary, week to week)
I used these quite frequently in my internship. For the first couple of weeks, the interns were required to help with Unit Tests in order to get familiarized with the code base. Assertions however was used less frequently in the code I worked on, but we did use these frequently in OS. They were extremely helpful in figuring out how methods and portions of the code would break.
Furthermore, continuous integration was also prevalent inside my time at my internship. At first, I had difficulty grasping these concepts since a majority of the work I did was alone or with small groups of people working together at the same time. - What made you happy this week?
The amount of detail Downing went into the project. It helped flesh out many of the ideas I had in my head for this project and how to implement them in my code. Furthermore, the caches that Downing went into gave me several ideas that I am excited to try in this project. - What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
I’ve recently been finishing many of the old games that I had bought but never played; and, I recommend Octopath Traveler heavily to those who love JRPGs. The art is amazing, yet it still brings back the nostalgia of old games.
