CS373 Spring 2021: Tim Nguyen

Week 13

1. What did you do this past week?

This past week I worked on refactoring and cleaning up the website for phase 4 such as visualizations and removing unnecessary code and files. I think my team and I have done quite a lot for this website overall and are looking forward to wrapping things up finally.

2. What’s in your way?

I don’t think there’s anything in my way really. This week is my last week of college and it’s crazy to me how fast time passed by these past four years. I’m hoping to finish strong and be content with the work I’ve done.

3. What will you do next week?

Next week, I’m planning to give my all for my classes. I have three presentations for German, an iOS app, and for this class. So far, I’m feeling pretty comfortable with the website and my app, so I’ll be focusing and working on my German!

4. If you read it, what did you think of the The Joel Test?

I did not read this week’s paper.

5. What was your experience of Replace Type Code with State/Strategy (227)? (this question will vary, week to week)

I think this topic was relatively intuitive and made sense on how to approach a structured and concise object-oriented design. The exercises were pretty fun and easy to complete. They helped me in how to restructure and refactor code to not be only more efficient but also make the code easy to understand and follow.

6. What made you happy this week?

I think what made me happy this week was the realization of graduation being within a couple of weeks. I’ve started to contact important people, who I met from internships and other points in life, to send them graduation thank you letters. I’ll have to write those soon. Other than that, I’m happy I’ll get to graduate soon, especially being the first one in my family to graduate. My parents never graduated from high school, so it’s going to be a momentous moment for me.

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

My advice is to be you. It’s detrimental if you always compare yourself to others and want to be like them. I’ve had that problem before and I still try to catch myself before falling into that trap. Whatever grade you make in a class, whatever offer or no offer you have, I just want to tell you that you should be proud of yourself for everything you’ve done. Keep doing what you are doing and work hard to become not someone else but a better version of yourself. I believe in you!