Wi21.CIS.D022B.02Z

CIS 22B - Intermediate Programming Methodologies in C++

What	Opens	Closes
lab01	01/05	01/15
lab02	01/03	02/05
lab03	02/06	02/19
lab04	02/06	03/05
lab05	02/06	03/19

Reasons why you shouldn't steal my code:

• You learn nothing
• You make me look bad
• My code looks bad
• My coding style is somewhat unconventional
• You're going to have a difficult time explaining how things work if you get caught
• You're breaking the De Anza Academic Honesty Policy

Anyways

You know, this course looks like it's going to be a whole lot of suffering if I don't figure out how to code effectively.

The prof for this course seems pretty baller. I think this is going to be a fun one.

Learnings

This is just stuff I figured out or learned by doing assignments in here. There's way more actual other cool stuff that I learned during this time but I wouldn't really say that this course was the cause of it.

Constructor uniform field initialization:

// as seen in @coalpha/coalpha.github.io/cxx/constructor_initializer.cxx
class NoError {
   char c;
public:
   NoError(int c): c(c) {};
};

class HasError {
   char c;
public:
   HasError(int c): c{c} {};
};

Exceptions (bad)

// etc
throw {} catch (...) {};

Member function pointers

template<class Clazz, class ...Ts>
using method = void (Clazz::*)(Ts ...args);

cin to string

string hello;
cin >> hello; // with "hello world"

set and map kinda

I'm not writing an example for how to use these.

Class Retrospective

During this quarter, the only thing I really learned from class was vectors maybe and C++ object orientation. That'd be constructors, copy constructors, operator overloading, virtual functions, constructor inheritance, constructor order, and maybe the existence of std::map and std::set. Overall during my entire quarter in and out of class, I learned surprisingly little. The largest personal learning event that happened was me trying to use non-standard C++ to make cursed arrays. See @coalpha/coalpha.github.io/cxx/ary{,2}.cxx. One thing I learned while doing lab_5.1 was CRTP, which is a really cool pattern. Could probably use that instead of virtual functions in a lot of cases.

Overall, I guess the class was okay, I suppose. The professor was understanding, accessible, and willing to help out. Honestly, that's already good in my book. But he was also funny and never got mad, actually so yeah, bonus. Having the course on discord is a big plus because it meant that I could actually meet and talk to some of the students... kinda.