What did I do this past week?

I started on project Life with my partner. We got the program to work in a very hackey way so we are hoping to fix the problems this weekend. I worked on some competitive programming problems as well, more specifically problems related to segment trees. Attended a programming contest this Friday in which I did ok. Lastly I applied to be a proctor for next semester. This is the first time I applied but I hope I get offered some classes.

What’s in my way?

There is Longhorn run this Saturday. This is my second longhorn run and I think it’s going to be pretty fun since I’m running with one of my student orgs.

What will I do next week?

Finish up Life and start working on computer vision assignment. Also I will register for classes on Wednesday. I have a relatively early date so I’m confident I will get all the classes I want to. NBA playoffs are starting this Saturday and it will be very fun watching some playoff basketball next week. I’m especially excited for the Spurs-Warriors game on Saturday since Spurs are my favorite team.

What’s my experience of the class?

I didn’t do well in Fridays quiz. I guess I don’t understand vector as well as I think I do. I enjoyed the lectures on static and dynamic binding and virtual keyword. I thought it was pretty funny how Professor Downing explained how inline keyword could be used for virtual methods even though virtual methods allows for dynamic binding.

Pick of the week

Learn about segment trees. Its a cool data structure in which you can store information about data through intervals. Through these intervals segment tree allows logarithmic time aggregation queries and data updates. I think it could be useful to learn this data structure for anyone who wants to working in a data management related field.