Nvs-abhilash

Joined 11 March 2017
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== S: Self-assessment ==
== S: Self-assessment ==
* Please describe how useful criticism looks from your point of view as committing student.
* Please describe how useful criticism looks from your point of view as committing student.
*: I think a criticism is something really important for any student because it is one of the important methods to receive feedback.
*: I really like to receive them because it means that your work matters to someone and I take that as a motivation to make my work better. 
* How autonomous are you when developing:
* How autonomous are you when developing:
** Do you like to discuss changes intensively and not start coding until you know what you want to do?
*: While assessing myself I observed that I try to code first and then try to find bugs and remove the inefficiencies in the code.
** 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?
*: Recently I was working with Colin on this [https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/pull/749 PR], you can see there my initial changes were very naive and incorrect, but then Colin helped me understand what else could have been done. Then I reimplemented it using the right ideology.
*: And I will not repeat the same mistakes again.
*: So, I think this methodology is what makes me learn more. I understand this might turn out to be a slow process, but I think this is what makes me more experienced.
*: Thomas Edison said: '' I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ''
*: With that said, '''''I will also absolutely make sure that I take regular weekly feedback from my mentors so that I don't end up in a wrong path.'''''


== Y: Your task ==
== Y: Your task ==
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