User:Sharma94

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

Hi,I am Mudit Sharma currently an undergrad pursuing Electronics Engineering in Delhi,India. I am certainly able to find leisure time for activities such as swimming and also playing chess.

• • Which languages do you speak?

I am fluent in English and Hindi.

• • 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 studying electronics. It deals chiefly with concepts from solid state physics, analogue electronics and much more.

• Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so?

GSoC is a platform where great minds are given an opportunity to interact.I didn't want to miss this opportunity.

• • 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!

This is my first time in GSoC. I have past experience with open-source and have a mentor experience with Octave.

• Why are you choosing Octave?

I think Octave deserves a state of the art set of functions, I believe this task will achieve some part of it.

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 IRC chat nick is sharma94

• 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 GMT+530.

• 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 will definitely prefer working in daylight (GMT+10 to GMT+22)+-2.The times can be modified on special days,such as finalising some code.

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 sound experience with C++ and even Boost. I have experience with Octave/Matlab scripting in which some matrix functions were implemented.

• Please describe your experience with other programming languages.

I have past experience with python in developing a crawler .[1]

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

As mentioned earlier I have past experience with writing matrix functions.

• 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.

The biggest project till now was to write a set of matrix functions for Octave. I was under great mentorship from an Octave member.

• 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.

The commits/patches for Octave contributed can be accessed here.[2]

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

Quite familiar.

• • Mercurial or other source code management systems

quite familiar with github. Would need only some time to get familiar with mercurial.

• • Mediawiki or other wiki software

Not much familiar.

• • make, gcc, gdb or other development tools

Quite familiar with make and gcc.

• 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 :-)

Some more projects!!

O: Only out of interest

• Did you ever hear about Octave before?

I had earlier heard of softwares which are like MATLAB.

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

I came to know about octave while gaining knowledge about MATLAB on the internet.

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

Octave doesn't need much of advertising but requires interested developers.

P: Prerequisites

• Please state the operating system you work with.

Ubuntu 14.04 and windows 7 - dual boot on a single laptop.

S: Self-assessment

• Please describe how useful criticism looks from your point of view as committing student.

Criticism plays the key role in the refinement of a project.It will always be appreciated.

• How autonomous are you when developing? If you answer both subquestions with "Yes, definitely", we are a tad confused. ;-)

I am autonomus.I try to do a problem on my own but I definitely take external help when stuck for quite a while.

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

I first draw a complete map of the task.Then coding.

• • 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 very much. Code is meant to be built then either modified or thrown away.

Y: Your task

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12BZnesbt9BxzsmakZQ2ZaRv7aP3orAoggMOoe5S92R0/edit