User:AMR KELEG
A: An introduction
- I am Amr Mohamed. I am a self motivated person who enjoys his work and I am a fourth year undergraduate student at faculty of engineering - Ain Shams University in computer and systems engineering.
- I speak arabic as a mother tongue and have good command of english.
- I'm mainly interested in studying algorithms , signal processing and competitive programming which highly relies on C++.
- I think contributing to a well-established organisation like Octave is a great experience that one will never forget. I hope that i can do my best to collaborate with the developers/maintainers of Octave in order to contribute to this great organisation.
I have been using Octave for nearly two years and was always impressed by having an open-source alternative to Matlab.I used many packages of the Octave Forge such as : Control - Serial - Signals and others.
C: Contact
- My Nickname on the IRC is AMR_KELEG .
- I live in Cairo,Egypt which means that the timing is (UTC+2).
- I usually code from 18.00 to 23.00 and during the vacation i could also work from 11.00 to 15.30
E: Coding experience
- I am programming using C++ as a main language.
- I have been using MATLAB/Octave for more than two years now.I wrote m-scripts / GUI apps and Simulink programs.
- I am currently implementing a college project using Qt.
- I worked on a signal processing project during the last summer to detect the hand movement using EMG (Electromyography) and Octave was the project's main processing unit.Its main purpose was to detect hand gestures.
- I have average knowledge of python, Ruby , Rails , Java , Android and Game development.
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F: Feeling fine
- General Experience with the required Octave tools:
- I am comfortable with using the IRC and the Mailing list.
- I am generally using Git but working with Mercurial isn't a big deal.
- I had built the stable branch and used the gdb on Octave smoothly.
- I am trying to fix the double-single computations bug (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47063) and hope i can contribute in solving the problem.I have submitted a patch but it requires some refinements.
What will make you actively stay in our community after this GSoC is over? You can also tell us after applications close and we'll happily try to fulfill :-)
O: Only out of interest
- I have heard about Octave from my colleague two years ago. I loved the idea of having an Open Source application that can replace Matlab.
- I still don't get the idea of adding packages to Octave Forge instead of adding them to the main Octave program.
P: Prerequisites
- I am mainly using Ubuntu 14.04 for development and surfing the internet.
- I use Windows 8.1 on my desktop computer for programs such as : Matlab -Proteus etc.
- I have complete (sudo) access to the computer running Ubuntu 14.04 24-7.Installing new software does
S: Self-assessment
Please describe how useful criticism looks from your point of view as committing student. How autonomous are you when developing? If you answer both subquestions with "Yes, definitely", we are a tad confused. ;-) Do you like to discuss changes intensively and not start coding until you know what you want to do? Do you like to code a proof of concept to 'see how it turns out', modifying that and taking the risk of having work thrown away if it doesn't match what the project or original proponent had in mind?
Y: Your task
- I am interested in working on the "Implement boolean operations on polygons" project.
Did you select a task from our list of proposals and ideas? If yes, what task did you choose? Please describe what part of it you especially want to focus on if you can already provide this information. Please also wiki-link the page for your elaborated proposal here. If you apply for a task you have added yourself instead, please describe this task, its scope and people you already talked to concerning it. What field of tasks did you miss on the list? Please provide a rough estimated timeline for your work on the task. This should include the GSoC midterms and personal commitments like exams or vacation ("non-coding time"). Optionally include two or three milestones you expect.