Mar, 3rd, 2024
SWE accomplishments this week
I am currently finishing up my Graphics project, just have to do Texture Mapping and Cube Mapping now. The most fun part of the week, however, was Valentine’s Day. I thank my team for wrapping up our project on Wednesday evening without me.
In terms of Software Engineering, our team has populated our backend and most of our custom API calls. I finished the instance pages and pagination and made them look nice using Bootstrap. I feel like we also have good infrastructure in place for our next milestone when we set up our actual backend.
What was in my way
I spent a lot of time this week on my Graphics presesntation, which is due on this Tuesday. I also worked around Valentine’s Day and my Girlfriend’s birthday (which was three days after), both of which required a decent amount of setup and planning as well. Also, Survivor Texas starting took up a bit of time, but honestly, all of these were very fun.
Plans for next week
Next week, we will completely finish setting up our backend for our Website and populate our model pages fully with instances. I also plan on finishing the Ray Tracing project for Graphics completely, which will give more more time to work on SWE.
Paper #7: The Liskov Substitution Principle.
The Liskov Substitution Principle is something that I was not familiar with but makes quite a bit more sense to me after reading this paper. When working on long-term projects, it makes sense to enforce the modularity of your code by making modules blind to objects that do not immediately relate to them.
Thoughts on comprehensions, closures, and decorators
Comprehensions were a very clean and efficient way to create lists and maps and Python that I hope to use in the future.
Closures make a lot of sense in that they define the rules for creating a list, offloading the work for when it is truely needed.
Decorators were syntax that I had seen before but never fully understood. They make a lot of sense as essentially just function/method/code wrappers.
What made me happy
The biggest highlight of the week for me Joyce returning from her Ski trip. Survivor Texas also remained a lot of fun, I went out with some crew members Thursday night.
Tip-of-the-week
My tip of the week is to use favicon.io to create favicons for your website. That way your browser can display a custom logo that you create for your website instead of the generic React favicon that it probably is right now.