Week 9

This past week our Allocator project was due. I am very satisfied with the way my partner and I delivered it. We finished our solution relatively fast and got an efficient, well-performing memory allocator. I think it is definitely amongst the sexiest projects I have done in UT C S. And, like the rest of prof. Downing's projects, what took longer than expected was the "secondary" requirements, a.k.a. creating the issues in Github, closing them with each commit you make, getting the unit tests to work and testing most of the corner cases! This one definitely took longer than expected. But altogether I think it is for sure a project worth bringing up during an interview. Prof. Downing has not posted the next project yet but I am excited for it and, as mentioned before, I will definitely be using a partner given the rough time I had with the first project given I didn't do pair programming.

I could not come to class on Friday but from what I can see and have heard we are starting to discuss to major data structures: Stacks and Queues (as well as Priority Queues, which I have always liked more than regular queues). I still remember the first time I was exposed to these Data Structures in my C S 314 class. I think they are fun to implement, especially the Priority Queue given that it has an added element of 'difficulty' which is the constant checking of priority level to determine whether an element should go in front of the next one or not.