Summer of Code/2016/TeachingKidstoCode: Difference between revisions

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lmc613@nyu.edu

* What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?

~~Laura chevalier4~~

Laura_chevalier4

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

laura_chevalier4

* What is your first language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)

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 upstate New York and my hours are typically flexible. I can adjust the availability at my summer job (which gives minimal hours to begin with) to allow for maximum availability in working on this project.

* 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?

I actually have not worked on an open source project before. The open source community was always something I'd felt like I wasn't enough of an expert to contribute to. Now that I've declared a major in Computer Science and have taken two computer sciences courses - one in Python and one in Java - I am eager to use my skills for a larger-scale project. Whether or not I'm enough of an 'expert' is less relevant now that I realize how much there is to learn and how much change there is to affect by contributing to open source projects.

'''About your project'''

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 lmc613@nyu.edu
 * What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
-Laura chevalier4
+Laura_chevalier4
 * What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?
+laura_chevalier4
 * What is your first language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
+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 upstate New York and my hours are typically flexible. I can adjust the availability at my summer job (which gives minimal hours to begin with) to allow for maximum availability in working on this project.
 * 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?
+I actually have not worked on an open source project before. The open source community was always something I'd felt like I wasn't enough of an expert to contribute to. Now that I've declared a major in Computer Science and have taken two computer sciences courses - one in Python and one in Java - I am eager to use my skills for a larger-scale project. Whether or not I'm enough of an 'expert' is less relevant now that I realize how much there is to learn and how much change there is to affect by contributing to open source projects.
 '''About your project'''