Sunday, October 23, 2011

Exam Week

          The second exam for Software Engineering was on Friday, and my whole week was spent getting stressed about the exam, and trying to prepare for it. I re-read all the papers and the Tom Jewett Database book, and compiled a detailed cheat sheet. However, to my surprise and slight disappointment, the test only had three questions from the readings! There were a bunch of programming questions, some easy, some which required a bit of thinking. Overall, I wish I had had more time for the test. I think an hour is too short a time for a programming test. The Haskell part was surprisingly easy for me, I think my CS 337 class helped me a lot on that part. Oh well, I will know how I did on the test in a week.
       The beginning of the week was about the WC project. As project leader, I wanted to make sure that everyone was on top of their piece of the project, and that no one felt overwhelmed with work. This involved writing a lot of emails! But on the whole it was fun, I enjoyed it! The project itself was interesting too, I like learning to use new tools, and the Google App Engine seems like a really useful tool. I noticed that you can pay them a nominal fee to get your own domain name, which would be useful if I want to make my own website in the future. I hope that by the time we finish all the parts of the project, I will be really familiar with the Google App Engine.
      The aspect that I enjoy most about this project is that I am getting to work on so many things that have interested me, but I have never worked on before. I have never built a website before, and I am really excited to help make our website user-friendly, and impressive. I definitely like the projects in this class much better than the tests!

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