week 13

This is the week before last week and we had many “last” done, such as last project and last quiz. 

Thanks to Downing for giving us 5 in the last quiz and an one day extension of the 5^th project life. It is reasonable that last project will always be most difficult, especially if we have many topics uncovered yet. To well figure out how the life system works and how to design different classes, we have to first understand the code slides on the class homepage. However, just as Downing said, the slide may help us more than we expect because of the strong relevance between them. After the instruction, I read the slide again and finally had the design phase done. I found that doing such a project really helped me to have a bettering understanding of object oriented programming, especially inheritance, abstract class, and dynamic casting. It is better than reading textbooks and code. Another thing worth mentioning is how I debugged the code. On Tuesday I found my output of cell is a little different from other students in the public repo. After simulating step by step myself, I thought my result was what I expected. Did it mean I have some misunderstanding of the requirement of the project? In fact, it is true. I incorrectly dealt with the case about age resume. After realizing that, I quickly got the correct answer

After the project, I think it is time to begin reviewing everything we learnt in the class during this semester because the final test is approaching. A should be my goal surely. I should be confident about it because of my current rank. However, just pay enough efforts in the incoming week. I can make it.

There was another company talk from square. The introduction was amazing to me! I really like it for many aspects. The first thing is their product, of course. What’s more, their working environment looks cool from video. For some sense, it is a still startup and the feeling is absolutely different from Google or Microsoft. It will push you to learn many new technologies. I really look forward to a chance of doing a summer intern there next year.