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Mvccouto
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→A: An introduction
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My name is Marcos Couto and I'm a 21 years old Brazilian Computer Engineering student (5th year of a 5 years major). I'm living until the end of the summer at Birmingham / AL, US as an exchange student (one year and 3 months program). I'm a native Portuguese speaker, English is my second language and I'm trying to learn a little bit of German (nothing useful yet). By now I'm pretty interested in control theory and applications but I've been studying other fields like combinatorial optimization. | My name is Marcos Couto and I'm a 21 years old Brazilian Computer Engineering student (5th year of a 5 years major). I'm living until the end of the summer at Birmingham / AL, US as an exchange student (one year and 3 months program). I'm a native Portuguese speaker, English is my second language and I'm trying to learn a little bit of German (nothing useful yet). By now I'm pretty interested in control theory and applications but I've been studying other fields like combinatorial optimization. | ||
I have been using open source software for 7 years and contributing is always something to be considered. Contributing for the first time on a open source project is a little scary for many reasons but last year I watched a talk about contributing to open source projects and they mentioned the GSoC, which is mentored and probably a more comfortably way to start. This is my first time trying to participate of Google Summer of Code and also first experience coding to an open source project. | I have been using open source software for 7 years and contributing is always something to be considered. Contributing for the first time on a open source project is a little scary for many reasons but last year I watched a talk about contributing to open source projects and they mentioned the GSoC, which is mentored and probably a more comfortably way to start. This is my first time trying to participate of Google Summer of Code and also first experience coding to an open source project. | ||
I decided for Octave because it is one of the open source projects I have more familiarity (as an user). I used to do lectures in Brazil to other engineering students about Octave's features and scripting basics that would be useful for them. | I decided for Octave because it is one of the open source projects I have more familiarity (as an user). I used to do lectures in Brazil to other engineering students about Octave's features and scripting basics that would be useful for them. | ||