CS371g Summer 2021: Aditya Kuppa

What did you do this past week?

I had my Vodugu ceremony, which is a rite-of-passage in my culture, this weekend and had spent the majority of the week preparing for the event. I also had my first full week of summer classes and mostly did works related to those.

What’s in your way?

My poor time-management skills are in my way. I have to balance 2 UTCS summer classes, an SWE internship at McKesson, Recruiting for Fall, and GMAT exam prep throughout the summer. I feel that I need to improve my time-management skills in order to excel at all these.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I want to create a detailed plan to list out my roles and responsibilities for the summer and create a detailed time table in order to organize my schedule. I also plan to work on the Project #1 for this class.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #2: makefile?

I completed the Paper #2: makefile today and was a bit confused by it. I went through the script file to process the information I understand and do not. Essentially, I made questions and observations regarding the code that I did &/ not understand.

What was your experience of assertions, unit tests, coverage, and IsPrime? (this question will vary, week to week)

I found the use cases of assertions quite interesting in terms of when/where they are used. The concept of Unit tests is still a bit new to me, however, I remember using them in CS104c Python Programming class where we had to use and correct unit tests that helped test our code.

What made you happy this week?

I really enjoyed my Vodugu ceremony because I got to see all my family and friends together at my event happy to see me there. This is especially amazing since I wasn’t able to meet many people all of last year due to Covid.

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

My tip of the week is an amazing search tool for code that is posted online in different websites, forums, etc. Grepper is a chrome plugin tool that basically shows top related code results to a certain topic that is entered. I definitely recommend that students add this plugin since it helps clarify different code details that may not otherwise be found in geeks for geeks or stackoverflow.