SummerOfCodeProposal Alexander Vishnevskyi

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Iskander

Questionnaire

Basics

Write a small introduction to yourself.

Hello, my name is Alex Vishnevskyi. I'm an 20 years old, university undergraduate in Kiev National University Radiophysical Faculty. I like to participate in Google Summer of Code.

State your preferred email address.

Cherry_Alex@bigmir.net

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

• Wesnoth.org: IskanderM
• Wesnoth forums: Iskander
• gna.org: Iskander
• irc: Iskander

Why do you want to participate in summer of code?

Because want try my skills in serious project, and get the experinse in programming.

What are you studying, subject, level and school?

I'm an university undergraduate in Kiev National University Radiophysical Faculty.I have learning in fourth course.

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

I'm from Ukraine(GMT+2).So between 14:00(GMT) - 20:00UTC I can join IRC, in weekend i can join to IRC in any time, also always when my computer are turn on i has open ICQ.

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

No if i take part of GSoC i will work all summer.

Experience

What programs/software have you worked on before?

I've worked in program in university, i develop the telephone billing system of my university, also i has small particypate in the other university project, whom consist of the administration of internet users with proxy.

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

Yes, i develop telephone billing inteam which consist of 2 people.

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, I haven't.

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

Just wesnoth.

Gaming experience - Are you a gamer?

Earlier i play in game a lot of time, but now i play little time in wesnoth and chess.

What type of gamer are you?

I don't now, but i didn't like if game became the meaning of life.

What type of games?

I like strategy games (Starcraft, Wesnoth, chess :) ).

What type of opponents do you prefer?

I like the good ones.

Are you more interested in story or gameplay?

I interested story more then gameplay. But if gameplay are bad, good story didn't help.

Have you played Wesnoth? If so, tell us roughly for how long and whether you lean towards single player or multiplayer.

I play in wesnoth, primary in multiplayer.

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 SVN (during the evaluation period or earlier) please state so.

Patch #1510.

3) Communication skills

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

I can read english text, but my writing isn't very good. Maybe i doing some errors in this text.

What spoken languages are you fluent in?

Russin, Ukrainian and English.

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

Yes, I think so.

Do you give constructive advice?

I do what i can, and best i can.

Do you receive advice well?

Yes, I always glade when people show my mistakes, and tell my a critik, it is take me a chance be better.

Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones?

Yes.

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

It be good for me if i discuss the problem, then i and community take the solution, and then i coded this solution and show the community, i can change my code, or rewrite it if need.

Project

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?

Yes, i selected the persistent gameworld project form the ideas list. I would at first write some easy tegs, for abstract maps which allow create single maps, then i want creat means for mutiplayer, after that i want create in server global system where can participate all player, it's be like great fight between light and dark, or something like that, it considire of 2 part: global map, and lockal fights in wesnoth.

Why did you choose this project?

Because wesnoth is interesting game, and i want try the develop game software

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".

I got an exam at June and won't be doing much then in about 2 week, and i plan travel 2 week on august, but if need, i can stay and work.

What do you expect to gain from this project?

Experience with a big team, big projects and experience in a game developing.

What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC?

Yes, i stay and try help this project in my free time.

Practical considerations

Are you familiar with any of the following tools or languages?

   * Subversion (used for all commits)

Yes

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

Yes, it's my first language and i now it very well.

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

Boost.

   * Python (optional, mainly used for tools)

No.

   * build environments (eg cmake/autotools/scons)

I try compiling with Cmake, but now i usin Microsoft Visual Studio

   * WML (the wesnoth specific scenario language)

I start learn him becase i need now it in my problem.

   * Lua (used in combination with WML to create scenarios)

No.

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

I using Microsoft Visual Studio, it convenient for me.

What programming languages are you fluent in?

C,C++,C#,Pascal,Delphi(not much).

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!

I can take my phone number or ICQ. You can ask me on e-mail if it be need, and i take it in my GSoC application.