CS373 Fall 2021 Week 4: Zhongyi Wang

What did you do this past week?

In the past week, I submitted my Collatz project on Monday. I finished my weekly algorithm assignment and turned in my data mining project on Friday. I did some jobs and internships online search online on Thursday. I submitted my resume to the company that I would start my career during the weekend. I also solved about 20 Leetcode problems to prepare for my online assessment.

What’s in your way?

I have two exams coming at the end of September. I also need to do the questions on the Leetcode to prepare my interviews. I need to figure out how to balance my time to make sure I will do good on both.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I will start working on my SWE group project as soon as I know my teammates. The most important thing is that I will focus on is reviewing my SDS and algorithm material to prepare for the exams. I have an online assessment on Wednesday. I will do a lot of Leetcode questions to get myself ready for it.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #4: What Happens to Us?

This article surprised me a lot. I can not believe that sexism, harassment, and racism still happened in our community. I thought most programmers are well educated, and they are supposed to know what is the right thing to do or to say. How dare and rude is a senior researcher to ask a black person if s/he got a lot of offers just because s/he is black. It is a great article to remind our future women programmers what is happened in our community in 2020 and improve their awareness of how to protect themselves and what they suppose to do if something happens to them.

What was your experience of Collatz, exceptions, and types?

The Collatz project and exception are very straightforward for me. I have learned in OOP in the spring. The types lecture teaches me a lot of new things. For example, I did not know the “==” works for the number between -5 and 256. I also never heard complex before. I spent some time learning it by myself during the weekend.

What made you happy this week?

The thing that made me happy was I got an invitation email from Cisco to let me complete the online assessment. My friend told me their assessment is fairly easy. Hopefully, I will do a great job on my online assessment.

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

If you do not know how complex numbers work in Python, the link below is really helpful.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/complex-numbers-in-python-set-1-introduction/
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/complex-numbers-python-set-2-important-functions-constants/