Summer of Code/2016/Nutritional Microworld: Difference between revisions

My name is Sneh Gupta, and I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at [http://www.iiit.ac.in/ IIIT-Hyderabad].

'''What is your email address?'''

snehgupta42@gmail.com

'''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''

Snehgupta

'''What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?'''

Sneh1234

'''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, I am 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.)'''

Working hours: (UTC + 5:30) 15:00 - 18:00 and 21:00 - 2:00

'''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'''

5) [https://github.com/sneh1234/TopShooter TopShooter] -> Built a 3-D top shooter game in openGL-2 and c++.

'''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'' ''' :

The project Nutritional Microworld is for children to learn the fundamental concepts of nutrition in fun and interactive way. It will help children to develop good eating habit and encourage them to do exercise. They will also get sense of planning activities, which is essential to achieve success in any field. By nutritional microworld games it will become easy for children to remember fact about nutrition.

''' ''Walter Bender:'' ''' :

The basic idea is to create a “microworld” for nutrition. The project will provide basis functions for exploring nutrition. A set of activities is to be designed that would engage children in some basic concepts. Workshop will be conducted with children and teachers to test the decisions made.

'''What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?

In order to get over the obstacles during the duration of the program I would try to resolve it at different levels. I will try to look up online for the possible solutions and see if any of them are able to help me with the issue that I face. Otherwise, I will try to use the mailing list and irc channels to ask other community members for help. I will also try to seek the help of my friends and colleagues when possible.

'''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?

I will be keeping a blog throughout the entire duration of the project. I will update the blog with the status of my weekly progress and a summary of the work done during the week. I will try to use the mailing list and the irc channel to inform the community about the problems or the questions that I might face during the duration of the project.

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I have been regular contributor in the sugar community since January and the below are the merged pull requests and issues reported by me.

           https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/pull/205

           https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/pull/208

           https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/pull/217

           https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/pull/236

           https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/pull/253

Bug reported : Coordinate of turtle changes after resizing.

           https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/issues/252

Bug reported: Parent blocks does not resize after children are send to trash.

Bug reported: Decrease block size feature doesn’t work for the first time.   

Bug reported: Detaching of labels.

When I was in class 8th, I was selected as one of the top 4 finalist in National Cyber Olympiad. Up until that point I liked computer science,but I did not have any special inclination towards it. But after I attended the preparatory camp, which was conducted for the finalists , my perception shifted drastically. The way the teachers at the camp taught computer science made me fall in love with it. The simplicity with which they were able to explain to us the underlying complex concepts had a deep impact on the way I approach problem solving now. Undoubtedly, I can say that it was a great learning experience for me.

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