CS 373 Fall 2022: Fernando Mercado - Week 9

 

What did you do this past week?

Team Queue made a lot of progress this week and I think we are set to finish on time for the phase II deadline. There's a lot of work yet to be done for the overall project's lifetime, but we are doing great work and I hope to continue on that track. I also did a lot of work on my iOS app WeGoGym, but after showing my alpha off I realized I need to redo a lot of the work which is unfortunate.

What's in your way?

This week I felt extremely unmotivated for no reason at all which put a major hamper on my productivity.

What will you do next week?

This coming week I will try to sustain the productivity streak I've been on these last few days for as long as I can. More applications and more developing of my app and website are in order.

What did you think of Paper #9: The Dependency Inversion Principle?

To be honest, the last few papers we've read by this author are very similar and a lot of the topics are so similar it's difficult to mentally distinguish what I've read this week from what I've read weeks past. Still, this paper was actually quite relevant to the work I did this week on Queue.

What was your experience of the relational algebra, select, and project?

Select and project stood out to me as being potentially quite useful for the SQL stuff we're doing for our projects. I had not really been exposed to relational algebra before but it was also interesting to me and this week was a week of learning new things in this class.

What made you happy this week?

Thanks to feeling a bit down early on in the week, I was able to channel that into a burst of motivation and productivity and it felt really good to do a lot of work and get ahead in my classes.

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

Make your frontend do as little computation as possible when designing your website. I recently had to refactor a lot of the frontend pages for our site and while necessary, could have been avoided had we had a better grasp of what it should look like when we first set up the frontend. Less is more and the more complicated a project becomes, the last thing you want to do is track information being passed across multiple pages that isn't working.

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