Week 7

• What did you do this past week?

I did not do much class related work. We did not have any project work this week. I had a low-key week, with most of my classes having bit of a lull in their work. I tried to take it easy this week, as I have 3 exams this coming week among other projects to work on and it will be a rough couple of days before the spring break. I will also work on my midterm paper due at the end of this week.

• What’s in your way?

I have not been going to the gym as often as I wanted to. Work, research and class has eaten into a chunk of time every day and I feel tired when I have free time. Hopefully, I’ll get back into the gym routine soon. I’m looking forward to spring break, I will try to fix my routine and eat healthier.

• What will you do next week?

I will be studying for my 3 exams, including this class. I will work on the hackerrank exercises and review the test cases we cover in class. I will try to make some preliminary progress on Allocator, as we will only have 2 class days after break to work on it. It is kind of strange that we get such less time for this project, I’ve heard that this is quite difficult.

• What was your experience of range_iterator, range and iteration? (this question will vary, week to week)

We covered these topics in SWE last semester as well. Therefore, it was not new in theory. However, learning about their implementations in C++ made it quite interesting. I enjoyed the HR exercises and it helped me appreciate the nuances of python and C++ more. Professor Downing really leads us into understanding how the language works at a deeper design level.

• What made you happy this week?

I got 2 job offers and a final round interview from a company I really want to work at. That was a good feeling.

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

I had to give several technical coding interviews this past month, and it was pretty stressful as I do not enjoy these sort of interviews. But a piece of advice from that experience is: Practise the hackerrank interview exercises! Super helpful and relevant to our tech interviews.