User:KeshaSShah/GSoC13/Reports

Week 0

April 19-22

• Joined #brlcad channel on IRC
• Subscribed to mailing list
• Introduced myself to the community through mailing list
• Downloaded Source Code
• Compiled it successfully from the source using cmake
• Made an account on SVN.
• Had a glance at source folder and caught my eyes on an instance of duplication.
• Made first patch and submitted it.
• Looked through project ideas and found Code Refacoring most interesting and suitable for me.

April 23-30

• University Final Exams

May 1

• Checked out some TODO task in the domain of Code Reducing and Refactoring.
• Picked up moving LIBWBD comments.
• Used the grep command to find out the comments that needed to be moved.
• Within just 10 minutes, I was able to successfully move all comments and submitted another patch
• Discussed with Sean about my interest when he encouraged me to explore converting and processing geometry.

May 2

• Read tutorial I and then tutorial IV on Converting Geometry and recieved some basic idea on STEP and other convertors available for importing and exporting between different CAD softwares.
• Gone through project ideas again and liked two more ideas-namely Improving STEP Library and STEP AP242 Parser.

May 3

• Proposal Submission Deadline on melange.
• Made my User-Wiki-pages
• Uploaded proposal on Melange and embedded wiki links in it.

May 4-5

• Read about the STEPcode from its wiki
• Files and Directories in sc/source
• Build the STEPcode with testing enabled using cmake
• Looked at files created in build directory

May 6-8

• Picked up Issue #47 to work upon.
• Made a list of differences between pair of 13 similar files.
• Untangles some calls from src/fedex_plus to src/clstepcore.
• Discussed on IRC about the errors I encounter.
• Read about how calls are made, maintainence of call-stack heap, the process of linking and Compiler warnings
• Overall, have got some better understanding.

May 9

• Installed doxygen and looked up some example codes.(for documentation part)
• Made a test-bot for IRC #stepcode (it functionalities still remaining to be discussed with mentors.)

May 10-11

• Read from some references and manuals and gone through cheat-sheet for learning GIT and GITHUB. (add, branch, commit, push, pull, reset, log etc.)
• Installed gitk and used it.
• Assigned #47 issue to myself.
• Made a branch and committed and push the removal of 5 similar functions.
• Revised some concept like virtual, pure functions, friend functions, use of const and static, extern etc.
• Discussed with Mark for logs and bot of #stepcode on IRC
• Reading doxygen manual.

May 12

• Almost done with issue #47. Pushed the commits on branch ks-duplicate-files.
• Known about the Debugger gdb- used back-trace feature.
• Quick Guide to gdb Debugger.
• Installed KDevelop IDE and planning to use it as it has nicer gdb GUI wrapper.

May 13-14

• Getting "Abort (core dumped)" error. Pushed it to a new branch for Mark to review it.
• Picked new issue #200.

May 15

Got Doxygen working correctly and tried few samples. Read manual to see how to comment.

May 17

Surfed for lazy-loading. Reading the process of loading (ch 7) of Bryant book.