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== Just Say No to GTK2 ==
=== About me ===
What is your name?
My name is Zeeshan Khan and I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at Institute of
Technology Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
What is your email address?
zeeshank606@gmail.com
What is your Sugar Labs wiki username
--
What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?
zeecoder
What is your first language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can
match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
My first language is Hindi and I am also fluent in English.
Where are you located, and what hours (UTC) do you tend to work? (We also try to match
mentors by general time zone if possible.)
I am located in Ahmedabad, India. The time zone is Indian standard time i.e (UTC + 5:30). I tend
to work around 6:00 to 15:00 (UTC), however it's adjustable as I don’t have any prior
commitments as of now, if I’m selected for gsoc 2017 then it will be my only job this summer. I
can manage my time and will be active whenever the mentors are available.
Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to
your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you
have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this
summer?
No, this is my first open source experience. I like the idea of anyone could contribute a patch on
his/her own schedule and developing something which would be used globally where you also
have the opportunity to tap the knowledge of the world’s best developers, and work with them.
Why Sugar Labs?
Sugar Labs is based on imparting education with fun using technology. It is a platform where I
could actually develop activities and games which would be used by millions of kids for learning
and fun purpose. Nothing could be more satisfying than looking at children enjoying the activities
I develop.
=== About my project ===
What is the name of your project?
Say no to Gtk2
Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it
for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you
be using?
Sugar has been using GTK2 as its primary toolkit, for many years. But recently major
changes have occurred in the sugar’s technology which includes an upgrade to a newer
version of GTK+ i.e. the GTK3 toolkit and PyGI. Because of these changes in technology
sugar is divided on these old and new distributions.
This project is all about porting a dozen of major and minor activities of sugar which were
based on “GTK2 and GST0”.10 to “GTK3 and GST1.0” in order for sugar to remain
innovative stable and fully updated with newer technology.
For Sugar:
# As the PyGI is introduced PyGTK is no longer maintained and hence it is outdated now, so shifting toward PyGI means shifting towards new technology.
# PyGI is better than PYGTK and less maintenance is needed as compared to
PyGTK.
# Major activities are divided between the recent distributions of GTK, After Migration of all the files of these activities to GTK3/PyGI, every activity will be running on its latest version with fully updated features.
# Move toward GTK3 will guarantee faster processing and lower memory usage.
# Number of new widgets, tab switches, animated widgets, sliding switches, titlebars, toolbars etc are added in GTK3, providing a better UI to sugar.
# Number of CSS classes are added in GTK3 which provides a good control over how the widgets will appear. And overall GTK3 will provide more flexibility, new technology better UI, and faster speed.
This project include migration from GTK2 to GTK3 and GST0.10 to GST1.0 of a
dozen activities some of them are:
Turtle activity, chat activity, record activity, calculate activity, convert and few more
Features proposed:
These are the changes which will be implemented for migrating the proposed
activities from Gtk2 to Gtk3. Although there are many more changes which will be
implemented but these are the major ones.
* HippoCanvas removal - As HippoCanvas library is no longer maintained, the
first thing to be done before porting to GTK3 is to remove from all the
activities the use of HippoCanvas library. It would be very difficult to port to
GTK3 with HippoCanvas. And HippoCanvas users can easily switch to custom
GTK container widgets. There are many activities like chat that uses
HippoCanvas so it must be removed from these activities.
* Adopting the API changes in sugar-toolkit-gtk3 - The old API is removed
in sugar-toolkit-gtk3. So the activities will be adjusted accordingly, for
example the keep button and the old style toolbar has been removed
completely, so the activities should not use these.
* Porting the activity from GTK2 to GTK3 - Starting from changing the
import statement, every call using GTK2 will be changed. All the calls for
accessing services and widgets in the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 will be changed. For example: “from sugar.activity import activity” will be changed to
“From sugar3.activity import activity”. Setup.py will also point to the new sugar-toolkit-gtk3.
* Constructor considerations - Now it is possible with PyGI to use
python-like constructors. And now names must be given to the constructors if
they takes parameters. Eg : button = Gtk.button(label=”foo”).
* Using GtkBox directly than using Vbox and Hbox - Hbox and Vbox have
been deprecated in GTK3 instead of this, GtkBox should be used directly, as
Hbox and Vbox may get removed in GTK4.
* GTK Alignment considerations - although the alignment constructor in
GTK3 takes optional parameters only, x,y; align,scale, but the default values
of the parameters are changed in GTK3, so according to the changed values
of the parameters the codes of different activities will be changed.
* Using cairo for drawing - In GTK3 Gtk drawable objects are not supported,
the GDK drawing API has been removed so all the drawing are done with the
help of cairo. So the idea is to run the activity under cairo. It also includes
changes when pango is used with cairo, changes when drawing a bitmap and
when reading pixel from xlib.
* Gtk Widget::draw signal - A new draw signal has replaced GtkWidget
expose-event signal, and now the Widget will draw itself using its allocated
size. And all the GtkStyle drawing functions are now changed which will take
a cairo_t instead of a window, and many more. So these changes will all be implemented in the activities proposed.
* Gtk ProgressBar orientation - in Gtk3 both the cell renderer and the
widget will implement the GtkOrientable with additional features. There will
be a minute change in the set orientation call. Instead of one call there will be
two calls now.
* No GtkObject - GtkObject will not be used in GTK3, as it is removed. The
remaining functionality ”destroy signal” will be now a part of GtkWidgetClass. So changes will be there wherever the Gtk object class is used.
* Other changes - It includes changing the syntax for drag and drop and
clipboard. GdkColormap will be replaced by GdkVisual. For using GtkPlug and GtkSocket widgets, different headers will be used i.e. (<gtk/gtk3.h>). Scrolling changes will be there. Replacement of size_request By get_preffered_width/height.
Constants will be having a different format, allocation property will be
Changed, import method for Pixbuff will also change.
Many changes will be implemented for porting to Gst1.0 like changes in; Imports,
Gst.init(), element _factory_make(), element_link_many(), Pipeline.add(),
one.link(), STATE_PLAYING, Buffer.data, buffer.timestamp and many more
which can be easily implemented (but are not possible to explain here).
Languages and libraries - Python, GTK3/PyGI, GST1.0
What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is
from mid-May to mid-August; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the
summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a
plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should
probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (end
of June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling
projects which are not mostly working by then.
=== Days TASK ===
10 May to 19 May
* Go through the Gnome.developer
webpage and figure out the
differences between GTK2 and GTK3
commands, imports and calling
methods.
* Get my hand over the differences
between GST0.10 and GST1.0
* Get my concepts clear over migration
from GTK2 to GTK3.
20 May to 27 May
* Go through the codebase of major
sugar activities like turtle, chat,
calculate and record.
28 May to 3 June
* Start changing the codes of a major
activity, turtleart where GTK2 is
used, according to the way described
in the project features.
4 June to 5 June
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
6 June to 12 June
* Start changing the codes of record
activity according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
13 June to 14 June
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
15 June to 21 June
* Start changing the codes of chat
activity according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
22 June to 23 June
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
24 June to 25 June
* Discuss about the changes, problems
and working of these 3 major
activities with the mentors and make
necessary changes .
26 June
* Prepare for the mid-term evaluation
and re evaluate the submitted
patches.
27 June to 29 June
* Mid-term evaluation
30 June to 5 July
* Start changing the codes of calculate
activity according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
6 July to 7 July
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
8 July to 17 July
* Taking two minor activities, Colors
and Stopwatch and changing their
codes according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
18 July to 26 July
* Changing the codes of two minor
activities, Dots and Boxes and
Slider-puzzle-branch according to
the basic migration steps and features
proposed.
27 July to 28 July
* Test the 4 activities and send the
patches to the community for review
and make necessary changes.
29 July to 7 August
* Changing the codes of two minor
activities, Classroom broadcast and
Convert according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
8 August to 16 August
* Changing the codes of two minor
activities, Arithmetic and
Pukllanapac and according to the
basic migration steps and features
proposed.
17 August to 18 August
* Test the 4 activities and send the
patches to the community for review
and make necessary changes.
19 August to 23 August
* Improve the code efficiency
* A last test of all the activities
refactored and make sure that each
activity is running perfectly and faster.
24 August to 27 August
* Bug fixes
* Documentation of features that are
implemented, on wiki pages.
28 August to 30 August
* Final Evaluation
Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your
project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their
past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be
creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.
It’s been around two months that I have been contributing to sugar, I am quite
familiar with the sugar codebase, I was always interested in the GTK and pygame
libraries of python and I am quite comfortable in using them. I am also good at bug
tracking and solving, which made me proficient in reading large codebases.
Starting from Mid May till mid August I have my summer vacations in my college,
during summer I have no other commitments and Gsoc will be my first priority.
There would be no problem with time availability. Also I have prior experience in
python and GTK3.
I have been participating in competitive coding on codechef.com from past 2 years.
Projects :
I have created a Database management system about the information of different
people in C++, using data structures and pointers. In my school.
Wormgame : designed a Gaming program in python using Pygame and Gtk libraries.
Here is the link for the same.
https://github.com/zeecoder606/Wormgame
This game also runs on sugar and is uploaded on activities.sugarlabs.org, here is the
link for the same.
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4801
===Me and my community===
If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs
community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be
yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at
least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact
information for non-GSoC mentors.
My answer :
It would be a great shift towards new generation technologies. As sugar is already
broken into different versions because of the introduction of new technologies like
GTK3 and PyGI it becomes difficult for sugar to be innovative and stable. So shifting
of all the major and minor activities as proposed will make sure that these sugar
activities will remain innovative and stable with faster speed of processing, with the
introduction of tons of new widgets, new tab switches, sliding switches, toolbars,
titlebars, etc these sugar activities will get updated with the latest development
technology.
Abhijit :
“Upgrading activities to the newer version of their dependencies would trigger the
future development of such activities. This project will help in upgrading some of the
important activities.”
What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
First and foremost, I’ll figure what exactly is the problem I’ll work on it step-by-step. I can ask for
help from my community members who are very supportive and helpful. Also with the help of IRC
chats, I will communicate with other developers and can ask for new ideas to solve my problem.
I would also ask for help from my seniors in college; who are experienced open source
developers.
How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and
any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
To keep my members updated, I’ll create a Thread on mailing list. For me to keep
track of the initiative I’ll Impart my project links to my mentors from whom I can
get feedback as well.
If I’d be allowed, I am planning to manage a Wiki page to post my accomplishments
timely.
===Miscellaneous===
We want to make sure that you can set up a development environment before the summer
starts. Please do one of the following:
* Send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the
following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of
Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "logout".
* Send us a link to a pull request or merge request you have made on a Sugar or
Sugar activity bug.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/reflect/pull/10
[reflect] added a collapse button to close the overlay area.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/743
[journal] fixed; selected entry count could not be updated when journal is in
editing mode.
Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
As a child, the “two switches for one light” assembly always used to fascinate me. I
used to crave for its explanation and logical reasons but was always unsatisfied until
one day in school when I learnt about electrical circuits. I thought this was the end
of my childhood curiosity. But then algorithms introduced me to how computer can
be used to solve such problems. Using the circuits knowledge, I created an
algorithm for my switch problem. This enhanced my interest in learning more of
algorithms and programming languages.
=== About me ===
What is your name?
My name is Zeeshan Khan and I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at Institute of
Technology Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
What is your email address?
zeeshank606@gmail.com
What is your Sugar Labs wiki username
--
What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?
zeecoder
What is your first language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can
match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
My first language is Hindi and I am also fluent in English.
Where are you located, and what hours (UTC) do you tend to work? (We also try to match
mentors by general time zone if possible.)
I am located in Ahmedabad, India. The time zone is Indian standard time i.e (UTC + 5:30). I tend
to work around 6:00 to 15:00 (UTC), however it's adjustable as I don’t have any prior
commitments as of now, if I’m selected for gsoc 2017 then it will be my only job this summer. I
can manage my time and will be active whenever the mentors are available.
Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to
your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you
have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this
summer?
No, this is my first open source experience. I like the idea of anyone could contribute a patch on
his/her own schedule and developing something which would be used globally where you also
have the opportunity to tap the knowledge of the world’s best developers, and work with them.
Why Sugar Labs?
Sugar Labs is based on imparting education with fun using technology. It is a platform where I
could actually develop activities and games which would be used by millions of kids for learning
and fun purpose. Nothing could be more satisfying than looking at children enjoying the activities
I develop.
=== About my project ===
What is the name of your project?
Say no to Gtk2
Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it
for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you
be using?
Sugar has been using GTK2 as its primary toolkit, for many years. But recently major
changes have occurred in the sugar’s technology which includes an upgrade to a newer
version of GTK+ i.e. the GTK3 toolkit and PyGI. Because of these changes in technology
sugar is divided on these old and new distributions.
This project is all about porting a dozen of major and minor activities of sugar which were
based on “GTK2 and GST0”.10 to “GTK3 and GST1.0” in order for sugar to remain
innovative stable and fully updated with newer technology.
For Sugar:
# As the PyGI is introduced PyGTK is no longer maintained and hence it is outdated now, so shifting toward PyGI means shifting towards new technology.
# PyGI is better than PYGTK and less maintenance is needed as compared to
PyGTK.
# Major activities are divided between the recent distributions of GTK, After Migration of all the files of these activities to GTK3/PyGI, every activity will be running on its latest version with fully updated features.
# Move toward GTK3 will guarantee faster processing and lower memory usage.
# Number of new widgets, tab switches, animated widgets, sliding switches, titlebars, toolbars etc are added in GTK3, providing a better UI to sugar.
# Number of CSS classes are added in GTK3 which provides a good control over how the widgets will appear. And overall GTK3 will provide more flexibility, new technology better UI, and faster speed.
This project include migration from GTK2 to GTK3 and GST0.10 to GST1.0 of a
dozen activities some of them are:
Turtle activity, chat activity, record activity, calculate activity, convert and few more
Features proposed:
These are the changes which will be implemented for migrating the proposed
activities from Gtk2 to Gtk3. Although there are many more changes which will be
implemented but these are the major ones.
* HippoCanvas removal - As HippoCanvas library is no longer maintained, the
first thing to be done before porting to GTK3 is to remove from all the
activities the use of HippoCanvas library. It would be very difficult to port to
GTK3 with HippoCanvas. And HippoCanvas users can easily switch to custom
GTK container widgets. There are many activities like chat that uses
HippoCanvas so it must be removed from these activities.
* Adopting the API changes in sugar-toolkit-gtk3 - The old API is removed
in sugar-toolkit-gtk3. So the activities will be adjusted accordingly, for
example the keep button and the old style toolbar has been removed
completely, so the activities should not use these.
* Porting the activity from GTK2 to GTK3 - Starting from changing the
import statement, every call using GTK2 will be changed. All the calls for
accessing services and widgets in the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 will be changed. For example: “from sugar.activity import activity” will be changed to
“From sugar3.activity import activity”. Setup.py will also point to the new sugar-toolkit-gtk3.
* Constructor considerations - Now it is possible with PyGI to use
python-like constructors. And now names must be given to the constructors if
they takes parameters. Eg : button = Gtk.button(label=”foo”).
* Using GtkBox directly than using Vbox and Hbox - Hbox and Vbox have
been deprecated in GTK3 instead of this, GtkBox should be used directly, as
Hbox and Vbox may get removed in GTK4.
* GTK Alignment considerations - although the alignment constructor in
GTK3 takes optional parameters only, x,y; align,scale, but the default values
of the parameters are changed in GTK3, so according to the changed values
of the parameters the codes of different activities will be changed.
* Using cairo for drawing - In GTK3 Gtk drawable objects are not supported,
the GDK drawing API has been removed so all the drawing are done with the
help of cairo. So the idea is to run the activity under cairo. It also includes
changes when pango is used with cairo, changes when drawing a bitmap and
when reading pixel from xlib.
* Gtk Widget::draw signal - A new draw signal has replaced GtkWidget
expose-event signal, and now the Widget will draw itself using its allocated
size. And all the GtkStyle drawing functions are now changed which will take
a cairo_t instead of a window, and many more. So these changes will all be implemented in the activities proposed.
* Gtk ProgressBar orientation - in Gtk3 both the cell renderer and the
widget will implement the GtkOrientable with additional features. There will
be a minute change in the set orientation call. Instead of one call there will be
two calls now.
* No GtkObject - GtkObject will not be used in GTK3, as it is removed. The
remaining functionality ”destroy signal” will be now a part of GtkWidgetClass. So changes will be there wherever the Gtk object class is used.
* Other changes - It includes changing the syntax for drag and drop and
clipboard. GdkColormap will be replaced by GdkVisual. For using GtkPlug and GtkSocket widgets, different headers will be used i.e. (<gtk/gtk3.h>). Scrolling changes will be there. Replacement of size_request By get_preffered_width/height.
Constants will be having a different format, allocation property will be
Changed, import method for Pixbuff will also change.
Many changes will be implemented for porting to Gst1.0 like changes in; Imports,
Gst.init(), element _factory_make(), element_link_many(), Pipeline.add(),
one.link(), STATE_PLAYING, Buffer.data, buffer.timestamp and many more
which can be easily implemented (but are not possible to explain here).
Languages and libraries - Python, GTK3/PyGI, GST1.0
What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is
from mid-May to mid-August; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the
summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a
plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should
probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (end
of June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling
projects which are not mostly working by then.
=== Days TASK ===
10 May to 19 May
* Go through the Gnome.developer
webpage and figure out the
differences between GTK2 and GTK3
commands, imports and calling
methods.
* Get my hand over the differences
between GST0.10 and GST1.0
* Get my concepts clear over migration
from GTK2 to GTK3.
20 May to 27 May
* Go through the codebase of major
sugar activities like turtle, chat,
calculate and record.
28 May to 3 June
* Start changing the codes of a major
activity, turtleart where GTK2 is
used, according to the way described
in the project features.
4 June to 5 June
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
6 June to 12 June
* Start changing the codes of record
activity according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
13 June to 14 June
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
15 June to 21 June
* Start changing the codes of chat
activity according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
22 June to 23 June
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
24 June to 25 June
* Discuss about the changes, problems
and working of these 3 major
activities with the mentors and make
necessary changes .
26 June
* Prepare for the mid-term evaluation
and re evaluate the submitted
patches.
27 June to 29 June
* Mid-term evaluation
30 June to 5 July
* Start changing the codes of calculate
activity according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
6 July to 7 July
* Test the activity and send the patches
to the community for review and make
necessary changes.
8 July to 17 July
* Taking two minor activities, Colors
and Stopwatch and changing their
codes according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
18 July to 26 July
* Changing the codes of two minor
activities, Dots and Boxes and
Slider-puzzle-branch according to
the basic migration steps and features
proposed.
27 July to 28 July
* Test the 4 activities and send the
patches to the community for review
and make necessary changes.
29 July to 7 August
* Changing the codes of two minor
activities, Classroom broadcast and
Convert according to the basic
migration steps and features
proposed.
8 August to 16 August
* Changing the codes of two minor
activities, Arithmetic and
Pukllanapac and according to the
basic migration steps and features
proposed.
17 August to 18 August
* Test the 4 activities and send the
patches to the community for review
and make necessary changes.
19 August to 23 August
* Improve the code efficiency
* A last test of all the activities
refactored and make sure that each
activity is running perfectly and faster.
24 August to 27 August
* Bug fixes
* Documentation of features that are
implemented, on wiki pages.
28 August to 30 August
* Final Evaluation
Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your
project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their
past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be
creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.
It’s been around two months that I have been contributing to sugar, I am quite
familiar with the sugar codebase, I was always interested in the GTK and pygame
libraries of python and I am quite comfortable in using them. I am also good at bug
tracking and solving, which made me proficient in reading large codebases.
Starting from Mid May till mid August I have my summer vacations in my college,
during summer I have no other commitments and Gsoc will be my first priority.
There would be no problem with time availability. Also I have prior experience in
python and GTK3.
I have been participating in competitive coding on codechef.com from past 2 years.
Projects :
I have created a Database management system about the information of different
people in C++, using data structures and pointers. In my school.
Wormgame : designed a Gaming program in python using Pygame and Gtk libraries.
Here is the link for the same.
https://github.com/zeecoder606/Wormgame
This game also runs on sugar and is uploaded on activities.sugarlabs.org, here is the
link for the same.
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4801
===Me and my community===
If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs
community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be
yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at
least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact
information for non-GSoC mentors.
My answer :
It would be a great shift towards new generation technologies. As sugar is already
broken into different versions because of the introduction of new technologies like
GTK3 and PyGI it becomes difficult for sugar to be innovative and stable. So shifting
of all the major and minor activities as proposed will make sure that these sugar
activities will remain innovative and stable with faster speed of processing, with the
introduction of tons of new widgets, new tab switches, sliding switches, toolbars,
titlebars, etc these sugar activities will get updated with the latest development
technology.
Abhijit :
“Upgrading activities to the newer version of their dependencies would trigger the
future development of such activities. This project will help in upgrading some of the
important activities.”
What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
First and foremost, I’ll figure what exactly is the problem I’ll work on it step-by-step. I can ask for
help from my community members who are very supportive and helpful. Also with the help of IRC
chats, I will communicate with other developers and can ask for new ideas to solve my problem.
I would also ask for help from my seniors in college; who are experienced open source
developers.
How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and
any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
To keep my members updated, I’ll create a Thread on mailing list. For me to keep
track of the initiative I’ll Impart my project links to my mentors from whom I can
get feedback as well.
If I’d be allowed, I am planning to manage a Wiki page to post my accomplishments
timely.
===Miscellaneous===
We want to make sure that you can set up a development environment before the summer
starts. Please do one of the following:
* Send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the
following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of
Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "logout".
* Send us a link to a pull request or merge request you have made on a Sugar or
Sugar activity bug.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/reflect/pull/10
[reflect] added a collapse button to close the overlay area.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/743
[journal] fixed; selected entry count could not be updated when journal is in
editing mode.
Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
As a child, the “two switches for one light” assembly always used to fascinate me. I
used to crave for its explanation and logical reasons but was always unsatisfied until
one day in school when I learnt about electrical circuits. I thought this was the end
of my childhood curiosity. But then algorithms introduced me to how computer can
be used to solve such problems. Using the circuits knowledge, I created an
algorithm for my switch problem. This enhanced my interest in learning more of
algorithms and programming languages.