CS373 SWE: Yichen Zhang
1. What did you do this past week?
This week I’ve been learning AWS S3 for both this class and cloud computing. I didn’t know S3 could be used as a platform for hosting a static website until I googled it. Since I didn’t know a lot about web development, I had to read a lot of tutorials and documentations for the SWE project.
2. What’s in your way?
As I am meditating on my past week, I have this feeling that I have so limited amount of time and energy every day. At the start of the day, we are ambitious or have some great plans for the day. However, we don’t always get to complete all the tasks we assign to ourselves. I need to learn to save energy for the most important thing. Also, there are so many skills I need to acquire. The more I dug into both frontend and back end development, the more work I realize I need to do.
3. What will you do next week?
This coming week, our team needs to get this project done. I’m working on the client-side of our website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Our team is awesome. We split up the work and people have the skills they need and know what they are doing. GroupMe and Slack enable smooth conversation.
4.What was your experience of iteration, AWS, and Chef Secure?
I have experience with iteration in Java, not so much in Python. I also have some experience with AWS from the Cloud Computing class. A lot of my experience comes from interacting with boto3 SDK. I really enjoyed Chef secure which before the lecture I have no idea what that is.
5. What made you happy this week?
Getting to spend tons of time with my girlfriend makes me happy. I really enjoy staying with her whether it’s hanging out or studying. Also being able to finish other projects way ahead of the due time makes me happy. This allows me to relax and move on to some other schoolwork.
6. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
I looked into the virtual environment and pipenv. It seems that both would work for some projects on a small scale. Adding libraries, frameworks, and tools that fit best for a project to a virtual environment makes coordination between programmers easier.
