CS373 Fall 2020: Week 3
2 min readSep 14, 2020
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I worked on the Collatz assignment. I had to figure out why Docker wasn’t running properly (The trick was to enable virtualization in my bios), and then update my Windows installation to allow it to work properly with the Windows Subsystem for Linux Update. However, that’s all been completed and now I just need to finish working on the Collatz project. - What’s in your way?
There’s nothing blocking me right now, as I’ve solved the issues I was having with Docker. - What will you do next week?
I’ll be finishing up Collatz as well as my Natural Language Processing assignment due this week. I’ll also have to apply for graduation, because the application opens up tomorrow. I’ve also got to keep working on assignments for my other classes, like Personal Finance. - What was your experience of Collatz, the starter code, the makefile, its optimizations, and exceptions? (this question will vary, week to week)
I still haven’t finished working on Collatz, but I found the starter file to be very useful, as it allowed me to skip a lot of the boilerplate coding. The makefile was also extremely nice to have, especially the section for automatically comparing my code against the class acceptance test repository. Working on the optimizations has definitely been interesting, as I can see visible results from small changes. - What made you happy this week?
I picked up one of my friends from the airport, and then we went and got dinner together. It was really nice as I hadn’t seen her in person since classes ended and we entered lockdown in March. We picked up ramen from Ramen Tatsuya on 6th street, and after eating I dropped her off at her apartment and caught up with her roommate, another friend I hadn’t seen in a while. - What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week has to be updating to Windows 10, version 2004. Having this update, and enabling WSL 2 allows you to stop using Hyper-V with Docker, as described here. https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/wsl/. By not using Hyper-V, the start-up time for Docker goes from over a minute to approximately 10 seconds.
