CS 371p Week 7: Kevin Chen

Kevin Chen
2 min readOct 11, 2021

What did you do this past week?

Tweaked my resume a bit since it wasn’t being scanned properly and did some interview prep. I had really challenging homework for Algo that took up a lot of my time.

What’s in your way?

Nothing is really in my way. I have a lot of stuff that I want to do, but getting to them without being burdened by other things is tough. I am curious about Project 3 coming out this week.

What will you do next week?

I plan to apply to some more companies and do some of my technical interviews coming up. I am kind of in a tough position where I want to decline a return offer but have no other offers lined up. However, I do think it is worth the risk.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #7: Open-Closed Principle?

I read the Open-Closed Principle last semester in SWE, but did not understand it as well as I do now. Having some work experience really helped me understand why this principle is important and just how widespread this practice is.

What was your experience of arguments, returns, and consts? (this question will vary, week to week)

I found the lectures on consts and pointers to be very useful. I think downing did a great job explaining and was very thorough about their differences. I had thought his explanation on const pointers was confusing, but read about an easy way to distinguish. Basically, the idea is to read them backwards. For example, const int* read backwards is pointer to a constant int.

What made you happy this week?

I had a fun time on Lake Travis with my fraternity this weekend. It was nice getting to tan and swim with friends. Also, getting some responses from companies that ghosted me last time felt good too.

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

It is very important to have a clean-looking resume that works with scanners as well. I used this latex template https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs to make my new resume.

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