User:Harsh.gupta

IRC

harsh on freenode.net

Questionnaire

1) Basics

1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself.

Hi, I'm Harsh Gupta an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. I'm an computer science and opensource enthusiast and I like reading random stuff on Internet. I also like strategy games Age of Empires by Microsoft Games and Pharaoh by Sierra.

1.2) State your preferred email address.

harsh.gupta@iitkgp.ac.in

1.3) If you have chosen a nick for IRC and Wesnoth forums, what is it?

harsh

1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code? Because it will give an opportunity to contribute to an open project and get me started with developing in an open source environment.

1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?

I'm studying Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. I'm a first year undergraduate student.

1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?

I'm from India and I'll be able to join IRC from 2:30 pm to 9:30 pm IST that will be 9:00 am to 4:00 pm UTC.

1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when.

I do not have any other commitment this summer.

2) Experience

2.1) What programs/software have you worked on before?

I have made a

2.2) Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own)

2.3) Have you participated to the Google Summer of Code before? As a mentor or a student? In what project? Were you successful? If not, why?

No, this is the first time.

2.4) Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement.

No, I'm not involved in any other open source project.

2.5) Gaming experience - Are you a gamer?

I'm not much of a gamer.

2.5.1) What type of gamer are you?

2.5.2) What type of games?

I like to play strategy games like Age of Empire and Pharaoh. I also liked Prince of Persia, Max Pain and Plants vs Zombies.

2.5.3) What type of opponents do you prefer?

I generally play against computer.

2.5.4) Are you more interested in story or gameplay?

I'm generally more interested in gameplay.

2.5.5) Have you played Wesnoth? If so, tell us roughly for how long and whether you lean towards single player or multiplayer. Yes I have played Wesnoth and I have completed the first campaign Heir to the Throne.

2.6) If you have contributed any patches to Wesnoth, please list them below. You can also list patches that have been submitted but not committed yet and patches that have not been specifically written for GSoC. If you have gained commit access to our repository (during the evaluation period or earlier) please state so.

I have not yet contributed any patches to Wesnoth.

3) Communication skills 3.1) Though most of our developers are not native English speakers, English is the project's working language. Describe your fluency level in written English.

English is my second language but I'm fluent in it.

3.2) What spoken languages are you fluent in?

Hindi and English

3.3) Are you good at interacting with other players? Our developer community is friendly, but the player community can be a bit rough.

I have never interacted in a gamer's community but I think it won't be a problem.

3.4) Do you give constructive advice?

Yes, I prefer not to force my view point on the other person but I rather prefer to give all the pros and cons so that they can decide by themselves.

3.5) Do you receive advice well?

Yes I think so. I try to be open to a advice.

3.6) Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones?

Mostly, If a advice starts from 'this is utter crap' it largely turns out to be useless. I don't heed to advice which are not backed by proper rationale and explanation.

3.7) How autonomous are you when developing ? Would you rather discuss intensively changes and not start coding until you know what you want to do or would you rather code a proof of concept to "see how it turn out", taking the risk of having it thrown away if it doesn't match what the project want

I'm semi autonomous in developing. Before starting I like have some idea of what I'll be doing I like to read and formulate the method and I generally have a fair idea of the complexity of the program. But after some time if I don't have a good idea of how I'll be writing the code, I start with what I have hoping I might figure out something useful during the process.

4) Project 4.1) Did you select a project from our list? If that is the case, what project did you select? What do you want to especially concentrate on? 4.2) If you have invented your own project, please describe the project and the scope. 4.3) Why did you choose this project? 4.4) Include an estimated timeline for your work on the project. Don't forget to mention special things like "I booked holidays between A and B" and "I got an exam at ABC and won't be doing much then". 4.5) Include as much technical detail about your implementation as you can 4.6) What do you expect to gain from this project? 4.7) What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC?

I'll answer these questions after I having more experience in development at Wesnoth. I'll answer the questions before submission of proposal.

5) Practical considerations

5.1) Are you familiar with any of the following tools or languages? Sub­­version (used for all commits)

No, but I'll learn it before submitting the proposal.

C++ (language used for all the normal source code)

Yes

STL, Boost, Sdl (C++ libraries used by Wesnoth)

I'm not very fluent with STL and other C++ libraries

Python (optional, mainly used for tools)

Yes, I use it all the time.

build environments (eg cmake/scons)

WML (the wesnoth specific scenario language)

Lua (used in combination with WML to create scenarios)

5.2) Which tools do you normally use for development? Why do you use them?

Git, my editor - vim and sometimes I use gdb. I feel the need to use IDE's.

5.3) What programming languages are you fluent in?

Python and C.

5.4) Would you mind talking with your mentor on telephone / internet phone? We would like to have a backup way for communications for the case that somehow emails and IRC do fail. If you are willing to do so, please do list a phone number (including international code) so that we are able to contact you. You should probably *only* add this number in the application for you submit to google since the info in the wiki is available in public. We will *not* make any use of your number unless some case of "there is no way to contact you" does arise! In general, students should be as verbose as possible in their answers and feel free to elaborate.

Surely I won't mind it.