What did you do this past week?
I started working on the SWE project which involved meeting up with my group members a couple times to delegate responsibilities and set a timeline for things we wanted to get done. As I’m not very familiar with front-end development, I have a lot to learn, so I was hoping to learn from my teammate who was also assigned to front-end due to his experience, but I have not been able to contact him yet so I’m a little worried about our progress. I finished my assignments as usual, but this SWE project has been looming over my head and I’m honestly a little bit stressed about getting it done.
What’s in your way?
The SWE project for sure; I couldn’t figure out how to move our project to the domain we had purchased through Route 53 no matter how much I tried googling. Also, I haven’t started grading the homework for CS429, which I know will take me several hours (yet I really don’t want to do, because honestly, who enjoys grading?) Just in general, I’m really looking forward to Spring break since I feel like I’m burning out already– taking 19 hours this semester might have been a mistake!
What will you do next week?
I’ll continue working on the SWE project and update my group members on my progress while checking in on their progress as well. I hope to utilize continuous integration and use git frequently in order to facilitate a smooth development process. I’m also hoping to be able to get in touch with my team member who has been completely MIA since the project has been assigned.
What was your experience of iteration, AWS, and Chef Secure?
Learning about iteration was really interesting, and the guest lecturer from Chef Secure was engaging and inspiring. I appreciated his efforts to engage the entire class in his demo while also ensuring that the material he covered was not too advanced or basic. I had heard that AWS was nicer and easier to work with than GCP from a friend, but honestly AWS has been giving me a headache so far, so I hope I can figure things out quickly.
What’s made you happy this week?
Being able to sleep in. The weekend is always nice for that reason, even if I feel like I spend every weekend just studying and doing homework in order to stay on top of things. Also, I’m learning Korean right now and so I use an app called HelloTalk, which is a language learning app in which you can talk with people from around the world. I was talking with native Korean speaker and I felt like it was really rewarding to both teach English and learn Korean at the same time.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
Schedule things out and try to stick to the schedule to the best of your ability so that you won’t be as stressed when deadlines come around.
CS373 Spring 2020: Sooyong Lee 