Week 7

Class:
Onto a new week. This week marked an important shift in the course. The focus of the course has now shifted towards databases. More specifically SQL and XML/JSON representations of the data stored in these SQL databases. This doesn't exactly mean that we are not going to be looking at python anymore though. In fact earlier this week we worked on converting a select and project statement into python code. I guess this is the professors way of making us understand exactly what the SQL statements are doing. On a harsher note I received my Test 1 grade and it was much worse than I expected. I was expecting a high B especially since I had studied much harder for this exam over the other one (Generic programming). It has however been such a tiring and event packed week that I have not had any time to go talk to the grader and see what mistakes I (or hopefully he) has made. This will likely happen tomorrow during his office hours.

Project:
Phase two of the project was completed in one week this time since everyone was focusing on the exam for the first week. This phase of the project was really tough as I seemed to be a little lost. It seemed like everyone had gotten a hold of one or two particular aspects of the project that they had locked down and owned as their responsibility. I on the other hand (given a limited time schedule due to the Deque Project) kept bouncing from one team mate to the other trying to make myself as useful as possible. I kept asking "what do you need me to do?" and then did my best to own up to the task assigned. With all that said, Im hoping on this next and final phase I will have more opportunities to contribute since I was able to get pretty familiar with unit testing the Apiary API. It should also help that the professor has given us adequate time (two weeks) to get the final phase complete and the final exam won't be until the week after.