CS373 Fall 2022: Minh Nguyen — Blog #8

• What did you do this past week?

Last week, I was back in Plano to visit my parents. We have a great time chatting and doing stuff together. Besides, I finished my other classes’ homework and assignments as usual. I tried to catch up with some hard lectures but cannot finish all of them.

• What’s in your way and what will you do next week?

I still have some materials which I do not fully understand so I am spending more time on these hard parts to catch up. I still have not done anything significant for phase 2 of the SWE project so I gonna start doing it as soon as possible so our group will have more time to debug and make sure our project satisfied all requirements.

• What did you think of Paper #8. The Integration Segregation Principle?

I do not have time to read through but just skim the article. I think it is much related to the Open-Closes Principles. It also talked about Class Interfaces and Object Interfaces which are very different but also make me confused.

• What was your experience of the eBay talk and decorators? (this question will vary, week to week)

I think they did a good job in introducing new trendy frameworks and technologies which are used in eBay.

This is the first time I have heard about decorators and I don’t think there are any similar concepts in other programming languages. I think Python did a very good job in implementing this concept which helps programmers in debugging and allows them to modify multiple functions in similar ways without adding much code.

• What made you happy this week?

Staying with my parents is a lot of fun but back to my own place in Austin made me feel comfortable. I also could be more productive and focus on my plan. In addition, the beautiful weather during this time along with the beautiful nature of Austin gives me many opportunities to participate in outdoor activities.

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

I found a 30 mins video on Youtube talking about OOP which is very helpful for technical interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBw7os-_zI