What did you do this past week?

I had my Airbnb virtual interview on Tuesday. It turned out to be the worst interviewing experience that I’ve ever had. Both interviews were to be completed through CoderPad. During my first interview, CoderPad’s video chat wasn’t working. The interviewer and I spent the first ten minutes of my interview trying to resolve the issue before giving and falling back to our cell phones. CoderPad’s video chat worked during my second interview. I made it about halfway through my interview and then everything fell apart. CoderPad’s online compiler stopped working. The interviewer and I tried everything to get it working again, but I was forced to continue with my interview without the ability to run anything. It amazes me how much managed to go wrong in the span of an hour and a half. Thankfully, the phone interview that I had on Friday went flawlessly. Outside of my interviews, I had an exam in Intro to Security and made a particle field-based audio visualizer for my Creative Coding Class.

What’s in your way?

I have a lot to do next week. It’s going to difficult to partition my time between all the task that I need to accomplish.

What will you do next week?

Next week is going to be terrible. In addition to the SWE exam, I have a project due on Monday. ABCS is hosting an event with Quora on Tuesday. My second Chemistry exam is Wednesday. I have an exam in my UX class on Thursday and ABC is hosting an event with State Street. Lastly, I have another CoderPad interview on Friday and ABC is having a social on the same day.

What was your experience of learning the basics of Python?

I have been using Python for a while but have still learned a lot of new things about the language. What we’ve gone over is far from the basics. Prior to this class, I hadn’t really investigated how containers and integrators work. I always wondered why certain functions, map, needed to have their results cast to a container before I could use them. I’m looking forward to learning even more and furthering my Python proficiency.

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

We recently covered the uses of asterisks in Python in class. I found a blog post that covers the topic well. It’s a nice way to review the topic prior to Monday’s exam.