CS373 Fall 2021: Srikar Ganti

What did you do this past week?

This past week I attended lecture, completed the in-class quizzes, completed Paper #3, did the in class exercise on Friday that was about prime numbers, and worked on Lab #1, which is due Monday night.

What’s in your way?

Nothing is in my way, per se, it’s just that classes outside of this one are starting to pick-up, so I’m having to juggle lots of different priorities at the same time right now.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I will turn in the lab that is due on Monday having passed all the tests and completed all the requirements. Also, I will attend all the lectures and do all the assignments that are due for the week.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #3: Continuous Integration?

I personally thought that the paper was a little long-winded, but the writing quality was good and it covered a lot of different topics. The article was written in 2006, so it was interesting to take a look back in time at the technologies that were popular during that time. Besides that, the content of the reading was important to understand because of how common CI/CD is in industry.

What was your experience of IsPrime and Collatz optimizations? (this question will vary, week to week)

These optimizations were something I was already somewhat familiar with, as it is something that we covered in object-oriented programming last semester as well. If I recall, our first project in OOP last semester was to implement Collatz in C++, and now here in SWE we have to implement Collatz in Python. The optimizations are interesting to play around with though, and I like trying to think about how and why they work.

What made you happy this week?

I was happy that I knew what was going on with Collatz since it’s a lab that I had already done in a class in my previous semester with Dr. Downing. I felt like a I had a handle on what was going on in terms of the class as well, which was a good feeling.