Week 10: 3/28-4/1

What did I do this week?

This week had a focus on writing a good OO design for the project Darwin. It has been a struggle because the specific semantics behind getters and setters is not very clear. Other than that, the main task today has been trying to flush out a design and program that would abide by the requirments.

What’s in my way?

One main struggle for this project is the avoidance of getters and setters. There would be many instances where my partner and I would not know whether or not a certain function counds as a getter or setter. This greatly slowed our progress because we would be making good progress only to stop because we were sure if a function we wrote was allowed.

What will I do next week?

We will finish writing our Darwin world and unit tests. It’s a bit more difficult than the projects we had before, so I do expect to be working on this a lot.

Recent Discovery

We had interesting bugs with accessing private variables even though the code was residing in the parent’s class (inner classes). This Stackoverflow post helped clear things up.