Jordan Bogaards
Week of 2 Mar – 8 Mar
- What did you do this past week?
Worked on my three projects and did basic classwork. Our progress on the projects have been rather lackluster unfortunately, and we’ve been confused on how to implement all the different things we are trying. We’re working our way bit by bit though and hopefully we can complete them on time.
- What’s in your way?
All these projects are really making it hard to organize around all three of my groups. I’ve been doing my best, but outside of one of them, it feels like I’m not getting enough work in to do my fair share.
- What will you do next week?
I’ll keep doing what I can to support each of my groups, while also preparing for the exams this week. Trying to figure out how we can build a page for the site through methods so we can implement pagination properly, we have the pagination bar working, but making the new pages is a work in progress.
- What was your experience of
=,*,**, and decorators?
I found them to be really fascinating in their different uses, especially in that they make effectively infinite input functions a possibility. I am a bit confused on the use of something like (*t, z), as I get that you have to pass by name for the z, but what advantage do you get from this? It could lead to more readable code I presume, but I highly doubt that is the purpose of this functionality. Decorators are also pretty neat, and are especially useful for debugging, which for some reason I enjoy.
- What made you happy this week?
The group I usually play board games with and I had our second attempt at the Arkahm Horror LCG this weekend and found it to be much more satisfying than our first adventure into it. The first time scenarios were very difficult and frustrating, but this time I think we were experienced enough with the game to know what to expect and managed to plan around and perfectly execute two scenarios. It was a very fun time.
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