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Antonio Pino
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== A: An introduction == | == A: An introduction == | ||
* Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies. | * Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies. | ||
I am Antonio Pino Robles and I am currently an | I am Antonio Pino Robles and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of the Basque Country, in the Basque Country, Northern Spain, Atlantic French border. Thus I an a native Basque and Spanish speaker, I can express myself in French and Italian (after a year long stay in Piemonte), besides being fluent in English. | ||
I have always enjoyed literature and math, which are things I like to do when I enjoy the heavy rain pouring in my | I have always enjoyed literature and math, which are things I like to do when I enjoy the heavy rain pouring in my home town. | ||
* What's your overall background? | * What's your overall background? | ||
As an ungergrad I am following a programme that leads me to a major in Electronic Engineering and a minor in Physics, that means that I have | As an ungergrad I am following a programme that leads me to a major in Electronic Engineering and a minor in Physics, that means that I have experience in subjects such as Control Theory, Signal Analysis on one side, and Quantum Physics and Thermodynamics on the other; all with a strong mathematical background. | ||
* Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so? | * Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so? | ||
I hope to learn how programming is done outside of the | I hope to learn how programming is done outside of the sand boxed problems I have done until now (at Uni) while contributing to free software. Besides, I have been following the FSF for a long time, and been a free software user for longer, so this can be a way of giving back while receiving. | ||
* Why are you choosing Octave? | * Why are you choosing Octave? | ||
Last year, I took two courses the relied heavily on the matrix exponential (Control Theory and Non-linear dynamics) to solve systems (or approximate them) by | Last year, I took two courses the relied heavily on the matrix exponential (Control Theory and Non-linear dynamics) to solve systems (or approximate them) by | ||