CS373 Fall 2020: Michael Liu

What did you do this past week?

This past week I mainly spent my time reacquainting myself with friends that I had not seen since everyone had left in March for spring break. Other than that, I’ve just been organizing my work structure in order to prepare for the course load of this coming semester.

What’s in your way?

Currently, time management is a big thing that I need to improve on. Between course work, recruiting, friends, and personal hobbies I find myself often lacking enough hours in the day to get everything done that I want to get done.

What will you do next week?

This next coming week, I will probably maintain a similar schedule to that of last week — spend time with friends and complete my coursework. Besides those two things, the only other consisted aspect of my life right now is that I try to exercise for at least one hour a day.

What was your experience of assertions, unit tests, and coverage?

I was previously aware of all three of these concepts before coming into CS 373 however I have not had the opportunity to work with assertions too much in my previous coding projects so I am excited to familiarize myself with them some more. Regardless, I think that all of these topics are important areas of skill to possess as a software engineer so I am glad that SWE will be covering them!

How are you doing and holding up? What’s been most helpful for you in terms of support at this time?

Recently, I have been holding up and doing relatively well. The most helpful things for me in terms of support at this time have been the support, affirmation, and company that my friends and loved ones have provided/shared with me.

What made you happy this week?

This week, a few of the things that made me happy were when I got my code to work properly for some class projects, seeing improvement in terms of personal fitness, and playing the guitar/singing along to some music with my friends.

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

My tip-of-the-week this week is that if you have work that needs to be done and run on the CS Lab Machines and you don’t want to work in VIM, Visual Studio Code has a wonderful plug-in called Remote-SSH where you can set up your SSH environment and VSCode will fill a local editor with the “filesystem” of your CS lab machine account so that you can work on your files remotely but interact with them as if they were being stored on your local machine.