CS 371p Spring 2021: Aly Hirani #6

What did you do this past week?

This past week, after the winter storm, I watched lecture, studied for quizzes, read and annotated the paper, and I am doing this blog. I also worked on the second project for this class (Voting) and I passed all the test cases on the HackerRank.

What’s in your way?

I don’t think that there is anything in my way anymore. Especially since all my homework and assignments have had their deadlines extended because of the winter storm, I think I have more than enough time to complete everything I need to complete.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I will finish the second project, watch lectures, study for quizzes, read and annotate the paper, and do the blog.

If you read it, what did you think of the Single Responsibility Principle?

I did not read the paper this week.

What was your experience of Voting and consts? (this question will vary, week to week)

My experience with Voting was pretty good. I thought it was an interesting problem that is very relevant to modern politics, especially in America. The algorithm described by Professor Downing in class was very straight forward, and it was not much more than translating that into pseudocode and then into actual C++ code. My experience with consts was also pretty good. I only knew the semantics of the first flavor of const in C++, so it was interesting to learn about the other two flavors of const.

How did you fare in the storm?

I fared very well, especially relatively. I did not lose power, but I lost water for a few days.

What made you happy this week?

I got to hang out with my friends a lot this week, which was a lot of fun.

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

My tip of the week is port forwarding over SSH. If you are running a server or something on a port on a remote machine, when logging in, you can set up port forwarding with -L and you will be able to see that port on your local machine.