<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I'm Vijeth Aradhya, currently a computer science undergrad at
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. I
would like to know more about the community and the probable GSoC
projects at Sugarlabs. I developed a keen interest in the whole idea Sugar Labs is based
on because I always believed in free learning and helping curious students.
I believe that being a part of the community is more important than
just completing a project and merging some code.<br><br>I have pretty good
background in programming in various areas, be it graphics programming
or front-end development. I'm currently a developer at <a href="http://coala.io/" target="_blank">coala</a>, and I have contributed to GNU Mediagoblin and GNU wget. I will list some of my projects I have done in
my university and also due to my own interests.<br><br>1.
<i>Full-fledged scheme interpreter</i> (using Haskell) : When I was learning
category theory and functional programming, I wanted to build something
and I chose this project. I used Haskell, a purely functional language
to do this.<br><br>2. <i>Game development</i> : I was always interested in game development since I was a kid. I have developed a couple of small games -<br><br>(A) Bloxorz : (<a href="https://gitlab.com/vijeth-aradhya/bloxorz-game" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/vijeth-ara<wbr>dhya/bloxorz-game</a>) : Inspired by <a href="http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.miniclip.com/games/<wbr>bloxorz/en/</a>, I built this game using OpenGL as part of my Graphics course in my university.<br><br>(B) Blocks here and there : (<a href="https://gitlab.com/vijeth-aradhya/opengl-sample-bricks-game" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/vijeth-ara<wbr>dhya/opengl-sample-bricks-game</a><wbr>) : This is a 2 D game developed using openGL again.<br><br>(C) TicTacToe engine : (<a href="https://github.com/vijeth-aradhya/tictactoe-engine" target="_blank">https://github.com/vijeth-ara<wbr>dhya/tictactoe-engine</a>) : Using basic minimax game theory algorithm, I built it using raw JS, html and css.<br><br>(D) Tetris : (<a href="https://github.com/vijeth-aradhya/tetris-game" target="_blank">https://github.com/vijeth-ara<wbr>dhya/tetris-game</a>) : Using python curses library, I built the good, old tetris game.<br><br>(E) Ultimate tictactoe bot : This was part of my AI course in the university where I built an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tic-tac-toe" target="_blank">ultimate tictactoe</a> bot using alpha-beta minimax algorithm.<br><br>3.
<i>Application Development/Web Frameworks</i> : I am familiar with django,
web2py and ionic framework and I have built many small projects using
the same.<br><br>There is a lot more which I have not mentioned about me, but I feel it's best if I join the community and help out, and then only I would be clearer about myself! <a href="https://github.com/vijeth-aradhya/" target="_blank">Here</a> is my github profile.<br><br><div>Whether
or not I make a successful proposal, I want to be a part of
this community and learn as much as possible. It would be great if you
could get me started. I could probably start by fixing bugs or
contribute a small project to the community. Currently, I have sent a
mail requesting a wiki account because I want to
search for bugs and fix a few of them, and then I would like to check
out the projects listed and then narrow down to one of them, and start
working on it.<br><br></div><div>Also, if there is anything more I need
to know about GSoC in general with respect to the community (because I
just joined the IRC and I'm really new to Sugarlabs), please let me
know. I believe that this is good way to kick start my contribution to
Sugarlabs!<br clear="all"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Looking forward to your response,<br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><br><br><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><font face="times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you,<br></span></div></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Vijeth Aradhya,<br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Undergraduate Sophomore,<br></span></div><font face="times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad</span></font></div>