CS373 Fall 2020: Ishan Phadke

What did you do this past week?

My group and I finished up Phase 3. The extra day helped somewhat due to all the election news we were following. Searching, filtering, sorting, and a few bugs in our website are finally all complete. I also got a head start on projects for other classes.

What’s in your way?

Next week is pretty open for me. I would like to get a head start on Phase 4 and an essay I have for another class.

What will you do next week?

I want to take a well-deserved break for a few days after a hectic couple of weeks full of interviews, exams, and projects. But, later I want to get started on the homework I mentioned above.

If you read it, what did you think of The Dependency Inversion Principle?

As a student, I haven’t had too much experience designing projects that are meant to be reused besides one or two times in internships. This paper really helped solidify the indicators of bad design I should be looking for and how to fix them. I’ve heard a lot about abstraction, especially in Data Structures, but it helped to look at it in different terms.

What was your experience of relational algebra in Python? (this question will vary, week to week)

I don’t really know much about relational algebra, but the Python implementation seems powerful. I’ve had to mess around with datasets quite a few times in SQL, so having another more concise option is nice.

What made you happy this week?

I finally got a great offer from a cybersecurity company, which is really cool because I’ve wanted to get some experience in the security industry.

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

I’m not familiar with React at all, but after the second half of this tutorial, I was able to get a pretty good grasp of it. Just set aside some time because it is pretty long.