Long Term Takeaways Test first, test during, test after, test, test, test When designing algorithms, demand the weakest capabilities (e.g. iterable vs. indexable) When designing containers, provide the strongest capabilities (e.g. indexable vs iterable) Build decorators on top of containers, iterators, and functions Utilize the benefits of being lazy (i.e…

What Did I Do This Past Week? This week, I finished up my front-end stories for phase three. This consisted of creating search pages and sprucing up the splash page for TexasVotes.me. …

What Did I Do This Week? This week, I did Data collection for my team, where I retrieved information about candidates who participated in the 2020 primaries and runoffs as well as their performance in their respective elections. To do this, I actually ended up creating an algorithm to try…

What Did I Do This Week? This week was a rest week. After helping finish up phase II with the team, I got my wisdom teeth taken out. Since then, I’ve been sleeping, sticking to soft foods, taking anti-biotics, playing League of Legends to pass time, and procrastinating on upcoming…

What Did I Do This Week? This week, I contemplated my existence and questioned the purpose of higher education after being bombarded with three exams — one of them being an extremely difficult take-home NLP test. With regard to SWE, I mostly continued scraping for data and prepared the data…

What Did I Do This Week? This week, I continued working away at Project 2. My job is to collect data from both RESTFUL and non-RESTFUL sources, involving the OpenSecrets API, some spreadsheets, a couple of HTML pages, and PDFs. Scraping the spreadsheets was pretty trivial — the Python module…

What Did I Do This Week? This week, my team got straight to week on phase two. With a lot of our front-end done from Phase 1, we moved to the harder part of data collection. …

What Did I Do This Week? This week was pretty eventful with regard to this class. For project 2, got our topic approved by Downing (yay!), finished two pages, and have started working on models. In class, Downing finished his first rotation of cold calls, and proceeded to call on…

What Did I Do This Week? This week involved getting together with my group to start preparing for project #2. We created our slack, added the appropriate custom emojis, came up with an initial idea, and set up our GitLab repo. …