Week in Isolation 4.0

• What did you do this past week?

I wrapped up the Darwin assignment. It was not as challenging as I expected, although wrapping my head around the class relations and how to manage the board was the key to solving the project in the expected way. It was an interesting project, and one that brought out the OOP design concepts that Downing has been talking about quite well. Every project seems to reuse some concept from the previous projects, which I enjoy.

I worked on some group assignments, and started figuring out what the rest of the semester is going to look like. I do not have any finals, but all my classes have exams in the last week of class, which is going to brutal.

I was a bit lazy in attending classes this week, I have been trying to keep the same schedule. However, this week, my schedule was completely off, and I ended having to listen a lot of lectures over the weekend to catch up. Have to fix that starting Monday.

• What’s in your way?

Keeping a good routine and schedule and staying motivated. It get’s challenging balancing work, school and research with a good routine and schedule at home – working out, cooking, cleaning etc. I cannot wait for May 8th when the semester ends and I can devote more time to myself.

• What will you do next week?

I want to get ahead of the curve and make healthy progress on the next project. Being the last one, I expect it will be the most challenging. Alongside that, I will run everyday and ensure I do some physical activity every day … and apply to jobs. Let’s see how it all turns out!

• What was your experience of r-value references and move semantics?

I followed some of it and some of it I will have to revisit. I need to review the vector class stuff we did and the move semantics. The r-value references was super interesting and I appreciate learning about it.

• What made you happy this week?

I have been making progress on 2 side projects related to sports analytics, which has been rewarding. I would have been able to work on them if I was out and about.

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

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