Student-laefy

Introduction

Personal statement

My name is Céline NOEL. I live in Paris and I study Computer Science at Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University (UPEM). I am in second year of License and I would like to prepare a Master Image in double degree with an engineering school called IMAC.

GSoC

I want to participate in Summer of Code for several reasons.

First of all, I love programming. Really. Some people love playing video games (I do too), or doing sports, or singing, or whatever, me, I love programming. And I also love mathematics, and algorithmic, because I am keen on racking my head over problems and having the satisfaction of solving them ! Even if I hate the frustration of being unable to find a solution.

Second reason : compared to working as a cashier in a supermarket, participating in GSoC would be something really interesting, fun, and valuing. Of course, I am aware of the amount of work that I would have to provide to deliver a working and cleaned code at the end, but when you are working on something, rather by willingness and interest than by obligation, you take a lot of pleasure in it. This is, I think, the main reason I applied to it.

In addition, coding on a project for a complete summer would give me an overview of what the developer job is. For my own good, I would be forced to code depending on other people (the mentor for example) and other standards; this could really help me to become more flexible and efficient. The GSoC is also a good opportunity to make friends and contacts, to build experience in programming skills as much as in the professional area. For all these reasons, I am really motivated and I will do my best !

Disponibilities : I am most likely to be able to join IRC at evening and during the weekends, or holidays. I have nothing planned during the summer holidays. If I am taken for GSoC, I am not planning to do anything else. Maybe just giving some courses to some friends or friends's children (2 / 3 hours a week at max), because I enjoy teaching.

Experiment

According to my cursus, I am studying C, HTML/CSS, algorithmic in programs, Shell, databases (MySql and PHP). Last year, with a friend, we programmed a 3-dimensional labyrinth with SDL (1.2), and an air traffic simulator (you can add flights, see the planes taking off at time, the different tracks, etc.) with our faculty library (lib-MLV) this time. This year, I did my projects alone : there was a Chomp (a 2-p game, in which you have to eat a chocolate tablet, knowing that the player who eat the last piece lose), an implementation of the Eight Queens puzzle (how to put 8 queens on the board, without any one of them threatening another), and a kind of Snake. I used SDL (2.0) for the graphical interface. We also had to implement a glossary by using ternary trees in algorithmic. On this semester, we are coding a implementation of the problem of the Traveling Salesman by using genetic algorithms, and we will have to do a database using MySql and PHP.

On my own, I have studied C++ and Object-Oriented Programming. I am trying to make a library in C based on SDL2 to render 3D. I also 'need' to code a little software to help me manage my money and (I hope, maybe) spend less (but I don't have the motivation for the moment, I prefer coding my library and my school project).

Project Idea

Description

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Contact

Email : celine.noel.7294 (at) gmail.com

Wesnoth forums : Laefy

IRC : laefy

Questionnaire

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