====== Francis Palustre NNSS 2024 Journal ====== **Author:** Francis Palustre, Email: \\ **Date Last Modified:** 07/05/2024 \\ ===== Week 4 ===== ==== New Person ==== This week, we mainly worked online, so I didn't meet any new people this week. Just a lot of communication with each other through Microsoft Teams. \\ ==== Cultural Insight ==== I can't really say there was something I noticed that is different from DASL because of how everything was online. \\ ==== Self Lesson ==== The biggest self-lesson is to be willing to ask people for their help. For me, asking for help is difficult because I have a preference of working by myself and would like to learn things alone, but I am working on accepting the fact that \\ ==== Technical Projects ===== For this week, I still worked on ROS2 launch files working with xml files, but with more complexity, such as arguments and macros. Implementing arguments weren't that bad to implement, but I did not like how the syntax of it is: $(arg [var_name]). To me, it doesn't make sense to use parenthesis instead of curly brackets and have the keyword: arg within it to denote that it is an argument. Besides that, I am not getting comfortable with this wonky language.