Hey,
Continuing on from the last post, this past week, and current semester thus far, has been interesting for us at UT Austin because of the many school closings. School was cancelled on Thursday and Friday of this past week giving us much to catch up on in our classes that fall on those days. This class in particular has now only had one full week of classes with a day being cut out of each of the earlier weeks due to the school closures for inclement weather. No matter how people are viewing the days off, we know that the closings put us behind in our studies, though it may be better to be safe than sorry when dealing with cold weather in Texas.
So, we turned in Project 1 the week before last, and this past week we were given the next one, Netflix, as I mentioned in my last post. Well, this project is due this Thursday and I have just gotten a pair programming partner to work with today. The articles we were given to read this week consisted of a lot of pair programming information, so I am definitely glad to be working with another classmate. In fact, the next three projects in this class will be done with at least two other people, I believe, so Downing has been pushing us to work with someone on this project to see if we have compatible schedules and could possibly form groups later on.
The Netflix assignment's due date comes one day after another class's project's due date, which I am lucky to have already pretty much done. But, this is always a reminder for me to look to the future due dates and see where they coincide in order to prevent deadline scheduling with homework. In all cases, Murphy's Law rules, and it is better to give oneself some leeway with turning in assignments.
The last couple of classes consisted of a lot of information for Netflix, and for the RMSE problem I mentioned last week. I expect the quiz tomorrow to have some questions either about those two things, or about the book reading that was due before Friday of last week. We have a quiz at the beginning of each class, which I am certain will help us to study for the exam coming up in a couple of weeks by showing us what types of things Dr. Downing likes to look for.
And with that, until next week, I bid you adieu,
Sophie
Continuing on from the last post, this past week, and current semester thus far, has been interesting for us at UT Austin because of the many school closings. School was cancelled on Thursday and Friday of this past week giving us much to catch up on in our classes that fall on those days. This class in particular has now only had one full week of classes with a day being cut out of each of the earlier weeks due to the school closures for inclement weather. No matter how people are viewing the days off, we know that the closings put us behind in our studies, though it may be better to be safe than sorry when dealing with cold weather in Texas.
So, we turned in Project 1 the week before last, and this past week we were given the next one, Netflix, as I mentioned in my last post. Well, this project is due this Thursday and I have just gotten a pair programming partner to work with today. The articles we were given to read this week consisted of a lot of pair programming information, so I am definitely glad to be working with another classmate. In fact, the next three projects in this class will be done with at least two other people, I believe, so Downing has been pushing us to work with someone on this project to see if we have compatible schedules and could possibly form groups later on.
The Netflix assignment's due date comes one day after another class's project's due date, which I am lucky to have already pretty much done. But, this is always a reminder for me to look to the future due dates and see where they coincide in order to prevent deadline scheduling with homework. In all cases, Murphy's Law rules, and it is better to give oneself some leeway with turning in assignments.
The last couple of classes consisted of a lot of information for Netflix, and for the RMSE problem I mentioned last week. I expect the quiz tomorrow to have some questions either about those two things, or about the book reading that was due before Friday of last week. We have a quiz at the beginning of each class, which I am certain will help us to study for the exam coming up in a couple of weeks by showing us what types of things Dr. Downing likes to look for.
And with that, until next week, I bid you adieu,
Sophie
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