What did you do this past week?

This past week was crazy. I presented my Creative Coding protect on Monday. Later that same day, I took the SWE exam. ABCS hosted an event with Quora on Tuesday. It went well. I had my second Chemistry exam on Wednesday. I couldn’t find my calculator on the day of the exam. I had to go to five different stores to find a new one. Thankfully, the exam wasn’t bad. I did well above the class average. I had a UX exam on Thursday. After my exam, I met up with my security group and completed our presentation. I had a virtual interview on Friday. Then, I met up with my SWE group to work on this phase of the project.

What’s in your way?

This terrible week had an equally terrible conclusion. I woke up sick on Saturday. I felt a little better on Sunday, but I’m still not 100%. Hopefully, it won’t slow me down too much.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I will continue to work on this phase of the SWE project. I have another interview on Monday. Then, my security presentation.

What was your experience of Test #1 (the problems, the time, HackerRank)?

The test wasn’t bad. It was very similar to the first OOP test that we had last semester. Once you figured out the trick to iterate through the individual digits everything else was straightforward. I finished in about half of the allotted time, although it likely would have taken me longer had I not seen the problem before. I have not problems with HackerRank as a testing platform.

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

My tip-of-the-week this week is this article covering the difficulties of making modern websites and web apps accessible. The addresses the Internet’s transition from pure HTML to various form of rich context (animation, games, etc.). The author explains that it is often trivial to explain the types of content in an accessible manner, but there is currently a lack of APIs that make assist the programmer in making these forms of content accessible.