DPS909 - Mamadou Diallo

This weeks goal was to test our code that was written.  To begin I had my usual issue with git rebase... Lines of code that I thought shouldn't appear was appearing. From the very start of this lab I took the liberty of removing duplicate code and commiting to my master in hopes that it doesn't appear anymore for future labs. Once my code was clean and up to date, I began to create test cases using jUnit. Due to not having tested in JUnit in a very long time I had to refresh get some refreshers. JUnit testing made me realize that maybe there was more functions that I could've refactored as I only had 2 functions not including my main to test.  In regards to adding a coverage tool, luckily I didn't have to use any external tool. Intellij has a built in coverage tool that is able to generate its own coverage report. To run it one must simply run the code with coverage.  In regards to my Continuous Integration, I decided to go with maven. This was my first time using any s...

For this release the goal was to have two pull request. I had to make an internal contribution to telescope and an external contribution which I made to a Data Structure repo that I've found during hacktoberfest. For telescope I decided to go and fix issue #1278 (Add docs on how to debug the backend) . I chose this issue because I myself was not comfortable with VS code and had no knowledge on how to use it. I thought that creating a doc file would be somewhat easy but what I didn't realize was that keeping the same "Syntax" as other documents would be challenging.  My PR can be found here :  Fix for issue #1278 : Created debugging file For my external pull request I actually wanted to find something new, I was looking to code something in java but found that there was lots of spam after going through multiple pages of open issues. After unsuccessfully finding any decent repo that I could contribute too, I decided to go back to release 0.2, I initially wanted to work...

  For this lab the goal was to analyze my code using external tools.  Although there wasn't much coding involved, this was good a good learning experience as I did not know that such tools to format and scan for bugs existed. Using google java format I was able to format my code, other than improper spaces my code didn't need much modifications. As for the linter I used SpotBugs, which surprisingly didn't return any errors. Through out this lab my only issue was with Intellij, my plugins weren't installing properly and my only fix to that was to upgrade from Intellij community to the ultimate edition Additionally I had issues with git when trying to squash my commits. For some reason I initially my git rebase command was telling me I was already up to date, then tried to rebase my current branch to master which didn't give me any squash option as seen in the screenshot below.  After doing that I had pushed my commits and could see duplicate commits for the same code...

This lab up to date had to be the most challenging lab for me. I previously had issues switching between my Macbook and Windows. This lab made my realize my biggest mistake while trying to code on two different platforms. Do not code and store things on the cloud (OneDrive) as things will clash and make your life extremely difficult.  Initially I had tried to get telescope working on windows, installing elasticsearch was very troublesome so I had switched to my mac. I made the switch over to my MacBook which made installing redis and elastic very simple with brew, unfortunately my comfort level using my mac isn't the greatest so I reverted to my windows computer.  It took me a while but since I had configured elasticsearch on my macbook when I returned to windows I was having tons of issues in the sense that elasticsearch couldn't find certain files.  I proceeded to delete elasticserach from my windows and have a fresh instance of elasticsearch reinstalled. Once...

For my final iteration of my release 0.2 deliverable I wanted to participate in something meaningful, I found a repo that supported the BLM movement. Being a student that is not only black but also both french and muslim. With the current state of cultural issues happening around the world, it made me want to contribute to this repo.  This contribution was supposed to be somewhat easy, it was more about the content that was being pushed out than the coding aspect of it. Ironically, it was the total opposite and I believe it also gave me the bigger picture of Open source. I was working with this cmd line tool called "eleventy" which emulates a server locally, it was quite troublesome and kept giving me errors when simply trying to install it(and almost made me want to unassign myself from this issue).  The reason why I say that it gave me a bigger perspective of Open Source is because this issue pushed me to collaborate and communicate with the author, from the v...

For this weeks pull request I decided to create my own issue in a project.  I found a data structure & algorithm repo that I could give some input into and also move away from html/javascript forms of coding. I chose this repo because data structures are very important to know as a programmer and some of the examples found in this repo could potentially be interview questions. I had created 2 issues for this repo, I wanted to add code so that one could see how to create a power function and a factorial function. The only difference was that I wanted to show both iteratively and recursively how to code those questions. Initially I had requested that both issues would be assigned to me (which was not an issue to me) but hours later after creating my issues I had some interest from other coders who wanted to add some of their code. Being in the spirit of hackoberfest I let one of the issues go and resolved 1 of the issues. This was interesting to me as I was not expecting for othe...

This week the goal was to refactor my code. My issue this week was transitioning from using windows to MacOS. I decided to complete this lab on my MacBook instead of my desktop windows computer. This was a little bit troublesome as my system was not up to date and I kept receiving errors that we're not related to the program itself.  A blocker for me in terms of git was that I had started coding on my MacBook and returned to my desktop. For some reason my desktop was no longer recognizing git commands. I had to save a local file of my java file, delete the git repo and create a new one for git to start working again. Unfortunately this didn't save all my commits that I committed while working on this project. In order to refactor my code I chose to remove redundant code & create a function to shorten the amount of lines being used. Not only did that make my code easier to read, in the future if I want to add flags it will make adding that aspect much easier to manipulate. I...