User:Amalia/Development logs
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Contents
- 1 Introductions
- 2 Community Bonding Week 1
- 3 Community Bonding Week 2
- 4 Community Bonding Week 3
- 5 Community Bonding Week 4
- 6 Week One
- 7 Monday May 25th
- 8 Week Two
- 9 Thursday June 4th
- 10 Friday June 5th
- 11 Saturday June 6th
- 12 Week 3
- 13 Monday June 8th
- 14 Tuesday June 9th
- 15 Wednesday June 10th
- 16 Thursday June 11th
- 17 Friday June 12th
- 18 Saturday June 13th
- 19 Sunday June 14th
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 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.
CODING PERIOD
Week One
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.
Week Two
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.
Week 3
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.