User:Adityamanglik

GSOC 2016 Public application template

A: An introduction

• Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies.

I am fluent in English, Hindi and Punjabi. Language preferred for professional work: English.

• • What's your overall background? The general field you work in or are studying, e.g. computer science, physics, artificial intelligence, control theory...

I am majoring in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering at BITS Pilani.

• Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so?
  • Please also describe your previous experience with the GSoC, if any. Includes any community-bonding, mentor experience or application, not necessarily accepted. We use this subquestion to identify which students are unfamiliar with how the program goes, providing further support. It has no negative impact on your rating!
• Why are you choosing Octave?

Because Octave is an amazing project. I have used MATLAB a lot at my college for lots of projects and realised that this knowledge and tools must be available to all for free. It's for progress of science and technology. Octave is the free alternative to MATLAB. As a student, it is very important for me to use and promote Free and Open Source software.

C: Contact

• Please state the (unique and identical where possible) nick you use on IRC and any other communication channel related to Octave. We really want unique nicks. You might want to bold it.

IRC nick: carpediem

• Which time zone do you live in? Will that change over GSoC duration? Perhaps DST adjustment or a relocation. Note that both UTC and GMT are not aware of daylight saving time! Please state UTC+x or -x.

I live in India. Timezone: UTC+5:30.

• Please state the timeframe (in UTC+0) when you feel most comfortable working during GSoC. Where are your time buffers? Example: I usually code around 9.00 to 18.00 and could also try to start earlier (~7.00) for few days ;-)

I prefer working in mornings(9:00(UTC-3:30) to 14:00(UTC-8:30) and evenings(17:00(UTC-11:30) to 21:00(UTC-15:30)).

E: Coding experience

This part is one of the more important ones in your application. You are allowed to be as verbose as you want, as long as you stay on topic ;-)

• Please describe your experience with C++, Octave or Matlab m-scripts, OpenGL and Qt.

C++: School Comfortable with classes and objects, file handling and algorithm implementation. Octave and MATLAB: Proficient. I have executed (large)projects on Octave and MATLAB, collaborating with a team. Some of the projects are listed on my Github page: https://github.com/adityamanglik

• Please describe your experience with other programming languages.

C- I am comfortable with C. Have done quite a bit of competitive programming as well, though did not like the experience(of competitive programming) much.

• Please describe your experience with being in a development team. Do you have experience working with open source or free projects?

I do not have a lot of experience working with open source and development projects, but have worked in a team before and would love to collaborate with the Octave development team as well to make Octave the best Mathematical program out there. I have worked on quite some projects in my college as a team member and have a lot of expereince: 1. DVM 2. Bot project 3. TSP

• Please describe the biggest project you have written code for and what you learned by doing so. Also describe your role in that project over time.

• Please state the commits and patches you already contributed to Octave. This question (one of the most important parts by the way) is the only part of your application our wiki admins will edit for you even after the application deadline. Code sometimes speaks louder than many words do.

https://github.com/adityamanglik/Spider-Gait-Simulator--Genetic-Algorithm

F: Feeling fine

• Please describe (in short) your experience with the following tools: We only use this question to determine where you need guidance, not for rating! We by no means expect you to be familiar with all of these and you'll won't necessarily need them while working with us.
  • IRC and mailing lists

Comfortable with both.

• • Mercurial or other source code management systems

Comfortable working with Git or Hg.

• • Mediawiki or other wiki software

First time experience, will learn fast.

• • make, gcc, gdb or other development tools

Comfortable with all these tools, working with Linux as my primary work platform for the past year.

• 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 :-)

Richard Stallman, FOSS, Octave is free, open source and hence BETTER than MATLAB.

O: Only out of interest

• Did you ever hear about Octave before?

Yes.

• • If so, when and where? How far have you been involved already?

Used in college a lot. Used it for Image processing and computation projects.

• • If not, where would you expect or advise us to do advertising?

Just accept my proposal and I will advertise Octave in my entire college!

• What was the first question concerning Octave you could not find an answer to rather quickly? Of course more than one question can be stated. We try to improve based on this each year! Includes learning how to use it, code, website, GSoC application, …

Please describe yourself in three words.

P: Prerequisites

• Please state the operating system you work with.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

• • If you have access to more than one, please state them and the conditions under which you are granted this access.

Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Access anytime(dual boot configuration).

• Please estimate an average time per day you will be able to access
  • an internet connection
  • a computer
  • a computer with your progressing work on
• Please describe the degree to which you can install new software on computers you have access to.

24/7. I have my own laptop(pretty powerful one with Core i7).

S: Self-assessment

• Please describe how useful criticism looks from your point of view as committing student.
• How autonomous are you when developing:

Like to work independently on my parts of project and finish the work to perfection.

• • Do you like to discuss changes intensively and not start coding until you know what you want to do?

I like to draw out a framework and start coding, then keep on filling in details as the project progresses.

• • 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?

Yes. Everytime. I thought that was standard development practice.

Y: Your task

• 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"). If possible, include two or three milestones you expect.