User:Atuljangra

A: An introduction

• Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies.
  • Which languages do you speak?
  • 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 an undergraduate student from the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi(IIT). English and Hindi are the major languages that I prefer to use.

• 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!

I am participating in Google Summer of Code, because it's "Google". GSoC is a great learning experience. I am not well established in the world of open source. I'll use this platform for my entry into the open source world. Open Source communities to work with. From last few weeks, I have been in contact with GNU Octave. And it was one hell of an experience to work with such awesome guys. It's my first attempt for GSoC. But I have done research on how the program goes and what are the rules and regulations.

• Why are you choosing Octave?

I am choosing Octave because I love the Octave community. People are so enthusiastic about their work. Plus the project that I'll be doing is a great project. Improving the Octave GUI and general User Experience.

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.

My unique IRC nick is atuljangra. I have been using this from last few weeks.

• 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 UTC +5:30. I will be staying in this area only for whole of the summer.

• 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 usually code in the afternoon and late night i.e. ~16.00 -~20.00 and/or ~7.00 to ~12.00 . But I can surely adjust my timings according to the situations.

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.

I have done may projects in C++, few of them are : 1.Multiplayer Carom Game : a 3-D multiplayer carom in C++ using OpenGL for graphics, TCP/IP and traces of UDP for networking and implemented three levels Artificial Intelligence for the computer player. 2.Class-room booking system: Designed and developed an efficient workflow based classroom booking system using daemon, server (TCP/IP) and multiple clients connecting to it. and many more like Calculator for large numbers(~50-digit numbers). In QT, I am pretty experienced. I have created few applications like Music Player, Group Chat client in QT. The UI of almost all my major C++ projects was created in QT.

• Please describe your experience with other programming languages.

I have programmed in many languages, majority includes Java, C/C++, SML, Prolog, and languages like AJAX, PHP, JavaScript etc.

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

I have been in development teams like Assistive Technology @ MIT. More details can be found at link this page. Many projects described above were team projects. This project was also one of the team projects: Architecture Simulator:Designed and developed a computer architecture comprising of an inorder 5‐stage pipeline, a 2‐level cached memory subsystem and a branch predictor (97 % accuracy). The caches were set associative caches using FIFO and LRU replacement policies. The branch predictor was a tournament predictor, which employed a GShare predictor and a bimodal predictor

• 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.

I can't say which project was the biggest. I have learned many lessons from each of the projects. I have developed a sense of working together from all such projects. I have developed coding skills by working on such projects only.

• 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.

I have created few patches for GUI of GNU Octave. Details of them can be seen on mailing list. 1.Modifying Settings option in Octave. 2.Creating NewFolder option in FileDockWidget in the GUI of Octave. I am working on other patches. This section will be soon updated.

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
  • Mercurial or other source code management systems
  • Mediawiki or other wiki software
  • make, gcc, gdb or other development tools
• 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

• Did you ever hear about Octave before?
  • If so, when and where? How far have you been involved already?
  • If not, where would you expect or advise us to do advertising?
• 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, …

P: Prerequisites

• Please state the operating system you work with.
  • If you have access to more than one, please state them and the conditions under which you are granted this access.
• Please estimate an average time per day you will be able to (if separated) access
  • an internet connection
  • a computer
  • a computer with your progressing work on
• Please describe the degree up to which you can install new software on computers you have access to.

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

• 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.