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===December 8-10, 2012===
 
===December 8-10, 2012===
 
:Added check for validation of files both pdb and g. Built successfully, created patch. Bad network connection at school, sent along at home.
 
:Added check for validation of files both pdb and g. Built successfully, created patch. Bad network connection at school, sent along at home.
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:Also finished applying to Cornell, will hear from 3 of my colleges this Friday (knock on wood)

Revision as of 09:22, 10 December 2012

Preface of Study


Pre-November 8, 2012

Summary of events
After finishing up the summer SEAP high school internship working on BRL-CAD, I wanted to continue working with BRL-CAD. After finishing up my Calculus 3 course (getting an A!!), the arrangements were made for my Independent Study. My hard drive has been on the fritz ever since this summer. I bought a new hard drive around Halloween and loaded up fedora 17 64-bit, and downloaded all necessary packages to build BRL-CAD and compile code. I completed the array write to file program, with limited problems.
Goals Accomplished
  • Finished up calc 3 course with an A
  • Downloaded the BRL-CAD package
  • Completed the array write to file C program.

November 8, 2012

Created the wiki page. Worked on reading array from file, have an issue with the program not reading the file correctly. Attempted first build of package from svn, had an issue when running "make" command, fixed it.

November 9, 2012

Finished the reading array from file, after fixing an error with memory allocation and pointers. Started looking into patch making for open source projects.

November 13, 2012

Started working on patch for moving comments from source to header files. Built BRLCAD in BRLCAD src directory accidentally, re-downloaded and rebuilt source.

November 14, 2012

Continued to move comments for the patch. A little bit of confusion on what to do, mainly do I keep the comments in the .c file or just cut them out?

November 15, 2012

The majority of the patch was done today.

November 16, 2012

Wisdom teeth removed.

November 19, 2012

Out for the day to recover from Wisdom teeth surgery

November 20, 2012

Completed moving comments for BRL-CAD patch.

November 21, 2012

Got caught up in holiday home cleaning and home baking

November 21 - 25, 2012

Thanksgiving break. Attempted to find a list of bugs for Mozilla on my free-time.

November 26, 2012

Mozilla Built very slowly. Finally found a list of quick bug fixes for Mozilla. Started work on the bug fix.

November 27, 2012

Short period, Continued work on patch for Mozilla, getting some help from contributers over at Mozilla.

November 28, 2012

Short period, Finished patch for BRL-CAD, sent in when I arrived at a good network connection (home). Patch ID on SourceForge: 3590871

November 29 - 30, 2012

Worked on the Mozilla patch, finally been given assigned to status.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815921
I have been over complicating how to solve the problem, which has been giving me many delays. A contributor pointed me in the right direction with another similar bug. Will finish up the first version of patch tomorrow.

December 1-2, 2012

Finished up the big bulk of the work for the Mozzila patch.

December 3, 2012

Built Mozzila with first version of patch (took a good amount of time). Corrected for dependencies and references to the edited files.

December 4, 2012

Another contributor uploaded a patch before I could get my patch up.

The Patches: A look back

Slow to finish patches; lost the assignment of both patches because of this. Patches require quick turn around from assignment to upload. Also includes quick understanding of concepts and the goal of the patch.

PDB-G

Reading pdb files


December 5, 2012

Wrote up the pdb-g.c file. Placed it in proc-db/, Made patch, built successfully, and submitted to Mentor.

December 6, 2012

Edited patch, added some of the args. Looked up a few things on command line args.

December 7, 2012

Edited patch, started adding the command line argument management into the code.

December 8-10, 2012

Added check for validation of files both pdb and g. Built successfully, created patch. Bad network connection at school, sent along at home.
Also finished applying to Cornell, will hear from 3 of my colleges this Friday (knock on wood)