AndrejLojdl

My name is Andrej Lojdl. I love programming, mathematics, and electronics, as well as any combination of these. I’m a first year student working towards a Bachelor degree in Computer Science at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Serbia. I speak Slovak (primary), Serbian and English.

Beside my regular course work consisting mostly of math this year, I’ve read most of the SICP book from MIT, I’ve been reading about Python, and I’ve been introduced to VCS with Git and unit testing by a friend from the industry. Before college I’ve been working on a few projects. My first project was “Signature segmentation and replication”, where I was scanning signatures and then segmenting them, using Matlab. Segmentation consisted of detecting nodes and arranging them in a sequence that matched the sequence of writing. My second project was “SPH Fluid Simulation”, where I was trying to replicate the behaviour of incompressible fluids. Code was transferred  from C (and OpenGL), to C# (and XNA framework) and finally to Processing. There was some flaw in the mathematical model and I was trying to get around it. These two projects were part of my work in the Petnica Science Center. As a final project in high school I wrote Sudoku solver/generator.

By participating in Google Summer of Code program, I hope to learn something new, gain more real world experience and spend the summer flipping bits, not burgers. The philosophy of sharing aligns well with my own values. I hope to get a better idea how it is to work in software engineering and how open source communities work, and how can I as an individual participate in the community.

This is the first year I’m trying to participate in GSoC. I’m choosing the Octave project because I have been using it for some course work, and because it has helped me alot with some online learning courses, like machine learning on Coursera.