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Week 67

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     Overall, my experience working on LibreOffice easy hacks went really well. I was able to contribute to a real open source project, which felt meaningful because my work will actually be used by others. One thing that went well was learning how to navigate such a large codebase and follow contribution guidelines. Over time, I got more comfortable looking at the code and understanding how the codebase is connected.     If I could improve anything, I would try to start earlier and ask more questions sooner. At times, I spent too long trying to solve things on my own when I could have saved time by reaching out to my instructor or peers for help. The most impactful part of this experience was seeing my contributions reviewed and accepted, making the work feel real, and showing me how collaboration works in a professional environment.           One challenge I faced was with my environment setup. I got it working for the most part, ...
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Week 59

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This week, we discussed new sorting, counting, and radix sorting. Then we went over Dynamic Programming, which is a concept I've heard a lot throughout my CS career, but I've never really known what it meant until now. I'm glad ot be able to use and apply it because of this course. The Warshall and Floyd Algorithms were interesting to learn about. I shared a great visualization of the Algorithm in the class Discord for my group discussion participation. I'm always excited when I'm able to solve the puzzles because these puzzles are difficult and really get my mind going. The one I did solve was the Tall-Short puzzle, which is one of the easier ones, but I'm still happy with it. The quiz and homework were long and hard to do, but I'm glad I was able to wrap them up to prepare for the final.
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Week 58

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 This week was a little rough because I had so much work. I am still in the process of tackling it, but I figured I'd get this out of the way. I even got called in on my day off, but we push. AVL, 2-3, and max heap trees are all new to me. But it was nice to see something pop up from my Data Structures & Algorithms course from back in the day. Hashing, it's probably my favorite data structure. I think it's super neat and unique. Handling collisions is also fun. I was so stumped on the puzzle this week, but then again,n I always am. After this class engagement, it's straight to the programming assignment for me.
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Week 57

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 Week 5 begins just after the Midterm, and I did pretty well, so I'm happy with my performance. I also appreciate the midterm starting at 10am; the last class had us starting at 9am, and it was too early for me to think. This week was heavy lecture-wise, but I managed to get through it during the week. Homework 4.2 wasn't bad, but 4.1 was rough. I knew it would be bad when it said to use ChatGPT to debug. It was alot but I got through it. For my class participation, I will share a resource in the class Discord.
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Week 56

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 This week, we didn't have any quizzes or homework. Our whole goal this week is to study for the Midterm on Monday. Content-wise, we went over merge sort very briefly, but this week I'm spending all my time studying and brushing up on past concepts that I wasn't too good at before. I need to go over algorithms, GCD, algorithmic problem solving process, data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, trees, graphs, and sets. I also need to review graph traversal and dynamic programming. I plan to review by going over quizzes, puzzles, and old lectures.
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Week 55

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 This week had a lot of new content and some review content from my Data Structures & Algorithms course at De Anza. For review, I reviewed Breadth-First Search and Depth-First Search; they were such a struggle for me at community college, but the knowledge was helpful in understanding them better a second time. We also went over Brute force string matching, exhaustive search, and the divide and conquer algorithm design. The puzzles this week were also super challenging; I was nowhere near the correct ballpark for either solution, which I usually am.  Overall this week wasn't too bad and I need to start focusing on the midterm it's creeping up. 
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Week 54

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 It's been a little over 1 year since I started my journey at Monterey Bay, which is crazy to think about.  This week, we learned about a lot of stuff, including notations for algorithm analysis, definitions of time efficiency notations, nonrecursive algorithms, and more. One thing that stumped me a lot during the readings was the understanding of the difference and how to remember the difference between big O, theta, and omega. I had to use ChatGPT to break the concepts down a lot and explain any misconceptions I had/ reinforce any ideas I got right. For the first time, I got one of the puzzles on my own, the 4-gallon puzzle, which wasn't too bad. I almost got the racing one down, but I said 6 instead of 7, forgetting about the other cars from group A.
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