CS371p Fall 2020: Pranay Kalagara

What did you do this past week?

This past week I set up the necessary configuration on my machine in order to to be able to work on Collatz. I spent some time following the steps of the workflow and was able to get through the initial set-up quite quickly. I also started brainstorming ideas for the project and continued to look into optimization through caching and such.

What’s in your way?

I just have to get used to working with the tech and C++. I’m sure it’ll come as I keep trying.

What will you do next week?

For next week, I hope to get the correctness of the project down so I’m just left with ensuring I have test cases and such done. I think it’ll be a tough task but I need to start sooner than later. If I could get this done by the end of the week it’d make things a lot easier.

What was your experience of assertions, Google Test, and gcov? (this question will vary, week to week)

Google Test and gcov seem very interested I hope to make good use of them in the future. I haven’t actually started coding yet so I did not get a chance to use these different techniques and technologies yet.

How are you doing and holding up? What’s been most helpful for you in terms of support at this time?

I’m doing good. I meditate on a regular basis so that helps keep me well-grounded and balanced.

What made you happy this week?

I’m happy I got through it! It was only the first full week but I still feel like I had a lot to do.

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

My pick-of-the-week is Kafka Streams which I’ve been messing around with on a website. It’s a real time streaming application that allows you to gain insights and data from web services as they happen! This proves very useful for creating insights and identifying trends or anomalies in streaming data.