I grew up as the fifth child in a family with 6 kids and currently have 6 nieces and 2 nephews! My hobbies include hiking, playing piano, and my favorite: rock climbing! I graduated with my bachelors in computer engineering at the end of spring quarter, so currently I'm studying CSE as a graduate student in the BS/MS program. I love teaching and hope to do it more in the future! Not only am I teaching at UW but also at a local high school through the Microsoft TEALS program (Teaching Education and Literacy in Schools). I'm also in a rocket club at UW called the Society of Advanced Rocket Propulsion (SARP), where we are working on launching our first liquid bipropellant rocket, named Pacific Impulse.
Start early! I think every TA puts this down but let me elaborate on why we really mean it for this class. First, these assignments take longer than you might expect. Often, the gist of things are straight forward, but the details of the assignment requirements get nit-picky and figuring out how to pass the tests take a long time. Secondly, creativity requires time! If you cram your creative projects the night they are due, they will not look as good as they would had you thought about what you wanted to do for an additional day or two!
Use print statements! Most of my bugs in this class were solved by adding print statements.
Try to figure out an organized workflow for yourself. When you start doing homework and are trying to meet all the criteria in the rubric, you begin to work sloppy and write code that hits the checkbox for the next requirement. This is good but make sure to keep it clean as you go. It’s easy to get messy which can be counterproductive at times.