CS371p Spring 2022: Week 12
What did you do this past week?
Last week, I finished up the Darwin project with my partner, worked on my Networks lab, studied for and took two exams, and got my language experiment approved to conduct.
What’s in your way?
Still just allergies honestly. They’re the absolute worst. I can’t wait for pollen season to get over so that I can go outside without worrying about getting absolutely crippled.
What will you do next week?
I will finish up my Mininet lab in Networks, get started on my speech experiment for Hindi, and work on the Data mining project involving going through the entire data science process with a dataset. I will also get ready for registration this week, hopefully getting into some interesting systems classes.
What did you think of Paper 12. Why extends is evil?
I thought the paper was rather straightforward, reiterating a lot of the ideas mentioned in previous papers regarding writing to the abstraction and not the implementation and avoiding getters and setters. I can see why implementation inheritance can lead to undesirable tight coupling of code, making the code much less flexible and maintainable. Instead, using interface inheritance using “implements” and using ideas like composition instead of inheritance can help control some of these issues.
What was your experience of iteration, initializations, and vector?
Reviewing some iteration concepts was quite straight-forward. Learning about initializer lists and the several ways to initialize variables in C++ was super useful to learn about with all its nuances. The brace syntax for primitive values prevents truncating from float to int, for example. Also depending on whether a struct has C or C++ functionality, the various syntaxes differ. The two vector exercises were good practice, and my teams were able to do both, so that was reassuring that we understood the concepts.
What made you happy this week?
I was happy to get a lot of work done and meet with my friends during the week. We played some NY Times crossword and it was pretty fun.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
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It gives you the essentials of a language, and syntax for all the basic operations you would need to do.
