Blog #11

Your blog entry must explicitly answer the following questions about the class (mark the questions in bold in your post):

• What are you most proud of doing last week?

There were no exercises this week for me to complete first, so what is there to brag about?

I turned in project #4, Darwin, on Wednesday.

I posted a cute kitten on Ed and got 17 hearts. (Maybe more by the time you read this!)

• What ability or skill did you use to make that moment the most proud of?

I am good at computer.

• What impact did what you do have on other people?

I helped Ronghua set up VSCode to run the debugger (lldb) on her Game Tech project so she could see why it was crashing. I also gave her a pro tip on how to do project #4 (Darwin) for this class.

I answered some questions about Darwin on Ed. Maybe that helped some people.

• What did you think of Paper #11. More on getters and setters.

I did not like it, Sam-I-Am. Here’s a comment I posted about his Exporter and Importer interfaces:

This is strictly worse than just putting String-returning accessors on Employee. You’re writing a whole lot of boilerplate that you’ll have to change if you add, remove, or rename Employee’s properties. It’s just a bunch of over-engineered object-oriented nonsense.

And another:

All Holub has done here is moved the getters and setters into different places by introducing a huge amount of boilerplate. I see no advantage here over just exposing the same methods on Employee.

• What did you think of the ethics lectures?

I was persuaded to go forth and sin no more. I certainly can’t go back and sin less!

In all seriousness, I liked them. They were a nice change of pace from the minutiae of C++.

• What made you happy this week?

I was not happy this week, and I don’t want to talk about it.

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

We had ethics lectures this week that included a lot of talk about the golden rule:

Treat others as you want to be treated.

My tip-of-the-week is the platinum rule:

Treat others as they want to be treated.

See you next week!