CS373 Fall 2020: Zongying Mo

Week 9

1. What did you do this past week?

I finished phase 2 with my group. My group is officially downsized to 3 people, so it was a lot of work. But fortunately, the professor gave us an extension. I also spend about 7 hours grading projects yesterday and will need to spend about the same time grading exams next week.

2. What’s in your way?

There’s a lot of things I need to learn and do for phase 3. Mainly it’s hard to estimate how long my projects are going to take. I am the type of person who needs to sleep at a certain time and for enough hours for my body and brain to function properly. So I’m not very good at staying up late, which is a bummer.

3. What will you do next week?

Next week I will work on phase 3 with my team. Besides this class, I don’t know how long my project for my other class this week is going to take. The instructor said it would be very similar to the last project. The model last time took around 15 to 20 minutes to train once, so I need to save around 2 days for it. I need to cram in my routine assignments and chores every week for other classes and activities.

4. If you read it, what did you think of Ethical CS?

I think it is really cool and I enjoyed learning about all of the materials very much. The Ted talk is my favorite part. It also introduces some philosophical theories and a lot of moral issues and I always find those things interesting to think about. It has a small overlap with my other class in philosophy in arts where we learned about Kant’s theory in art.

5. What was your experience of functions, lambdas, and decorators? (this question will vary, week to week)

It was very fun to learn about how python handles functions, lambdas and decorators. Personally, I think that Python is too flexible and intelligent. It may be easier to make mistakes and there’s a lot of things you need to be careful with since it is so tolerant. Python is actually the first programming language I learned, and I haven’t used Java in quite a while but I still prefer Java.

6. What made you happy this week?

I finished phase 2 with my group which was already very pleasant. On top of that, I watched The Queen’s Gambit with my friend. It was really good. It was short, fast, and even faster when you speed watch it. I enjoyed it though I don’t know much about chess.

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

Material-ui.com is really helpful for front-end development.