Sean’s OOP Blog

Predicted Hours:6

Actual Hours:8

Partner: Jeffery Zhu

Fun!

Predicted Hours:8

Actual Hours: 12

Partner: Jonathan Walker

Initially, the idea of how to implement an iterator was abit difficult.  However, after some thought, it wasn’t too bad.  The hardest part after that was how to solve the sudoku.  That took awhile, but we finally decided to a smart brute-force method would work fine.

Estimated Time: 5 hours

Actual Time: 7+ hours

Partner: My Luc

Initially, the project was easy to code and finish.  However, after finishing and running test cases, I ran into quite a few bugs that were just about impossible to fix.  The code ran fine from windows vc++, but when ported to linux, it would throw segfaults and valid()::assert() constantly.

The behavior of linux was completely inexplicable.  When I added a cout line to manually debug values, some of the test cases suddenly worked, but when I commented it out, they would assert false again.  It was like linux didn’t know what to do with reinterpret casting.  The same code that worked fine on my computer wouldn’t work on linux so well.  I went line through line looking for possible errors and found none, which is why my computer ran it fine I would assume.  I’m still not sure what was wrong, but after hours of debugging to no success, I’m giving up on this one.

Expected Time: 5 hours

Actual Time: 5 hours

Partner: Kyle Heck

This project was more fun than the previous ones in my opinion.  I liked not dealing with UVA.  It was a good project to work on with a partner, too.  Our subversion server was very convenient.

Predicted hours to complete:5

Actual hours to complete:7

Execution time: 0.412s

Rank:108

Partner: Steven Moist

Predicted hours to complete: 3

Actual hours to complete: 5

Execution time: 0.020

Rank: 557

No Partner

Notes:

The project was fairly simple.  I went ahead and did some optimization on my 1st attempt, but didn’t use a cache.  It was accepted, so I started making the cache.  I made a simple meta cache, then added in some lazy cache code.  Really improved the execution time.  I didn’t make my meta cache have varying range intervals, but if I had more time, I probably would have done that and scored a much lower execution time.

My first blog.  Been so busy with other classes and work (mainly work unfortunately), it took awhile to finally get around to doing this.