User:Amalia/Development logs

Introductions

This page is a diary dedicated to the work I have been honored to do with LibreCAD this Google Summer of Code 2015 period.

Community Bonding Week 1

• Celebrated my acceptance into Google Summer of Code 2015 with my friends at the Limbe Semme beach

• Getting to know other students in Buea selected for GSoC.

• Updated my repository on github.

Community Bonding Week 2

• Filled Student Foreign Certification Tax Form

• Discussed with my mentors the possibility of a wire transfer for work during the bonding period. No channels were open apart from Paypal.

• Updated my repository on github

Community Bonding Week 3

• Looked at the lc_splinepoints code in librecad/src/lib/engine/lc_splinepoints.*

• Worked feverishly and biased my efforts on my final year Management project ( meetings with supervisor, Writing Theoretical and Literature review, conceiving and administering questionnaires, etc ) which ate up the next fortnight.

• The intention was to go furthest as possible with Final year School Project so that when GSoC coding begins, I can concentrate more on my LibreCAD project.

Community Bonding Week 4

• Discovered a Paypal account at the end of the Community bonding period.

Monday May 25th

• Had a meeting with Women Techmakers Arm of GDG Buea organizing upcoming Google I/0 Extended 2015 at my University.

• Reading Documentation on Conics Sections in LibreCAD given to me by my mentor Dongxu Li.

Thursday June 4th

• Hurray! My Google Summer of Code finally package arrived my University today and I was called to come and collect it.

Friday June 5th

• Had a meeting with the Mentor for Google Developer Groups in Cameroon. He cautioned me on the importance of communication and daily coding on my project.

• Almost done with my Final year Research Project.Was working on corrections given by my supervisor the whole day.

Saturday June 6th

• Updated my github repository today.

Monday June 8th

• Synced my github repository with LibreCAD's.

• Installed and ran LibreCAD from source.

• Studying RS_Ellipse::getTangentPoint() and LC_SplinePoints::getTangentPoint() to help create RS_Hyperbola::getTangentPoint().

Tuesday June 9th

• Hyperbolas are unbounded and disconnected too. Investigating how finding the tangential points of splines can help the case of hyperbolas.

• Read articles by www.qcad.org on splines. Each branch or arm of a hyperbola can be seen as an open quadratic spline.

Wednesday June 10th

• Discussed with my mentor in IRC today and he gave me wiki link for LibreCAD.

Thursday June 11th

• Re-established contact with my co-mentor Ries.

• Discussed with mentor dli_ on #librecad.

• Understood what class RS_VectorSolutions is.

• Working on math algorithm for finding tangential points from a given point outside a hyperbola.

Friday June 12th

• Awaiting mentors' response to my question on IRC channel on math algorithm.

• Using calculus to solve the above math problem. It's quite cumbersome and I'm having a hard time.

Saturday June 13th

• Continued work on cumbersome algebra and calculus on tangential points to the hyperbola. I'm excited that my thinking was the same as this.

• My mentor asks for Proof of concept code on a daily basis.