CS373 Fall 2020: Michael Liu
What did you do this past week?
This past week I worked on a lot of projects and assignments for school and personal development. I exercised, spent time with friends, caught up on some television series, learned how to cook some new dishes, and continued to apply to companies in an effort to recruit.
What’s in your way?
This week I spent too much time doing things I shouldn’t have done like make plans with friends when I knew that I had a lot of work to do or played video games when I knew that I had a lot of work to do or really just about do anything else to avoid doing all of the work that I had to do. As a result, I now have a large pile of work to do and very little time to do it which is completely my fault.
What will you do next week?
Next week will be very similar to this week I assume. I will work on a lot of projects and assignments both for academic and personal reasons. I will exercise, spend time with friends, watch some tv shows, learn to cook some more new things, and continue recruiting. However, this upcoming week one of my friends is coming up from another city to celebrate her birthday so I will be spending a lot of time with her to catch up.
What was your experience of types, object models, and iterators?
All three of these concepts are fairly common in the realm of computer science and I’ve had plenty of experience dealing with all three in the past. However, usually I am working in a compiled, strongly typed language so dealing with them in Python will be new to me.
What made you happy this week?
Not much made me happy this week. Currently, I’m just getting by, day by day, and I’m pretty ok with that. I did cook some pork belly the other night though and it turned out better than I had anticipated so that was nice.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week this week is that if you need to query an API more often than the free version allows you to, you do not need to pay for a premium key. Instead you can just request more free keys and iterate over them to pull all of the data that you need.
