What did you do this past week?⌗

I finished planning phase III with my team and started working on my tasks. I didn’t do to much SWE work so will have to catch up a bit.

What’s in your way?⌗

The rest of this project, midterms, other projects, and a 2-day road trip this week.

What will you do next week?⌗

Finish phase III soon, which on my end means implementing the two user stories and some cleanup.

If you read it, what did you think of The Interface Segregation Principle?⌗

It seemed very similar to the previous reading by this author. I think it’s amazing how these code-pattern problems are still so relevant today. I wish it was a written using examples from a language like Python or Javascript since patterns can change across languages and I don’t write that much C++ but for the most part the ideas in the paper were language agnostic.

What was your experience of instance methods, class methods, static methods, regular expressions, and relational algebra?⌗

Instance, class, static are a great way to group methods relevant to a class, although I’ve often seen static methods abused and used when a normal function would have been clearer. I also think it’s cool that the Python syntax supports instance methods being used on the classes themselves with an explicitly passed self. This makes it much easier to use functional patterns like map, reduce, filter, etc. with objects without the need for an additional lambda expression.

I think there are two types of people, those who really like regex and those who hate it. I’m the former and probably use it more than I should. It’s a super-powerful syntax for doing very intricate string pattern matching and saves writing a ton of extra code for many use cases, although they don’t always work well everywhere.

I’m a bit familiar with relational algebra from SQL, but don’t have much previous experience with it.

What made you happy this week?⌗

I’m about to head back to my parents’ house in Indiana (think: cabin in the middle of the woods disconnected from the world vibe) for the rest of the semester. Even though I’ll still be working from there, it’s enough of a vacation to be pretty hyped about.

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

Along the lines of our weekly readings for SWE, I read Out of the Tar Pit this week. It’s a fairly long paper on the causes of software complexity, why and how state can be misused, and how to write understandable large-scale software systems.