CS371p Fall 2020: Nour Hajjar

What Did you do this past week?

For the last couple days, I was working on the Collatz project, understanding the tools and the platforms we are using for the project, reading and annotating paper three, and spent some time in office hours to figure out the tiny bug that causing my code to fail test three on HackerRank. Yesterday, I passed all three tests on HackerRank.

What’s in your way?

Only easy things left and that is to merge my own tests to the public repo, add documentation, push to Gitlab, and submit GitLab URL on Canvas. Other than that I’m ready and excited for the next project.

What will you do next week?

I will finish and submit Collatz project, read next paper, do next blog, and I will attend lectures to learn something new and get the knowledge that we might need for the next project.

What was your experience of Collatz, the starter code, the makefile, its optimizations, and exceptions?

Honestly by attending the lectures, it all made sense to me as soon as I saw the code for the project. It was a matter of getting familiar with the new environments that I never used before like GitLab. Once those were clear to me, it was all about implementing better optimization or fixing logical errors. For optimization, I would look back into lecture notes and remember what Dr. Downing highlighted at that point and apply that to the project. Logical errors is where I spent the most time. Overall, it was easy project.

What made you happy this week?

Actually I met my friends who I haven’t seen them in a while, and I finished the workflow and sketches for my next app so I will be ready to start on it when the semester is over.

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

My pick-of-the-week is a website named ProductHunt that would really help you get many views and visits for your product’s site. My tip-of-the-week is that don’t let coincidences to pass by. Try to turn them into ideas or make something out of them. Many inventions started by a coincidence!