Sudeepam

:- '''MATLAB m-scripts:''' I am highly experienced with MATLAB m-scripts. As I have said before, A lot of my coursework assignments involve making m-scripts. Those assignments, have even asked me to make my own implementations of inbuilt MATLAB functions and I have been using that experience to contribute to Octave-Forge signal package. In addition to this, I also implement machine learning in Octave and have gained further experience of m-scripts by doing that. If selected, for GSoC 2018, I will approach my project, with m-scripts and so I consider my experience to be a big plus point.

:- '''C++:''' I am familiar with C++ but I have never made a formal project using it and I haven't been using it lately. The language will not be new to me and I can quickly revise it if required. I was taught C and C++ in my first year, in a course called "Software Development Fundamentals". At the time I decided to use C and not C++ for my project. I passed that subject with an 'A grade' is all I can currently say about my C++ experience.

:- '''OpenGL and Qt:''' I have never used OpenGL before. I have never used Qt either but I've seen some Qt code of my friends.

* '''Please describe your experience with other programming languages.'''

:- '''C:''' I am comfortable with C and have made a number of projects using it.

:- '''JAVA:''' This was my first language, (well not exactly, my first language was BASIC), I have 4 years of experience with JAVA, but I haven't used it for making projects. I use this language mainly for problem solving (competitive programming) questions.

:- '''Python:''' I am familiar with the language but I still am learning to use it effectively. I am learning it so that I can use it for Machine Learning problems if required.

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

I do have the experience of working on a few projects with a team but those were small projects and we never used version control systems while making them.

* '''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'll assume that by 'biggest project', you mean the project which required me to play the most important roles and write a lot of code which required a lot of testing and debugging.

In this sense, my biggest project was that of making an Arduino and LDR Sensors based maze solver bot with a team of four. The bot would traverse a maze in a 'trial run' and store all the correct paths (A path that would not lead to a dead end) in its memory whenever it encountered a 'T like' condition in the maze (A condition when more that one choice of path was available). After that, in any subsequent run, the bot would traverse the maze using the stored path (which avoided dead ends) and therefore, solve the maze in a shorter amount of time.  

I was the team leader in this project and as the leader, my primary roles were to..

These were my primary roles as the leader. My technical role was to write the code or to make a 'functioning brain' of the bot. Roles of my team mates were to design the hardware, design testing tracks etc.

Some soft skills I learned from this project were..

Some technical skills I learned were...

* '''Please state the commits and patches you already contributed to Octave.'''

:- I've contributed a patch for the db2pow function of the signals package.

:- I've contributed a patch for the pow2db function of the signals package.

:- I have also helped review the cconv function by suggesting a faster algorithm. My suggestion had been considered and implemented.