Aha. My first ever blog post. The inspiration for this blog came from the Google Summer of Code program, which will be my primary focus till September.
I came to know that I was selected only yesterday night, and what a day that was! Phew... I was going round in circles thinking about my chances, what I had done right, what I had done wrong, blah blah. Never has been a wait of 24 hours been so torturous. I have to give credit to Gilbert Gede, Sean Vig, Jason Moore, DL Peterson, Angadh and all the other SymPy physics community mentors who helped me shape my proposal to a presentable, well-thought out condition. Earlier it was just one haphazard list of things that I intended to do over the summer(mainly monsoon, due to the late arrival of GSoC), and my chances wouldn't have been half as good without these people giving their input time and again.
Gilbert Gede, from UC-Davis, will be my mentor throughout the whole GSoC period, and I hope to learn a lot from him....not just physics, but also coding and coding styles in general. He is one of the authors of sympy.physics.mechanics (PyDy).
My co-mentor will be Stefan Krastanov, who has done awesome work for SymPy during his GSoC project last year. Considering both my mentors are former GSoCers, their experiences with the program will go a long way in making sure I don't stumble around too much.
I will be working alongside Prasoon Shukla, a student of IIT-R, as his project is closely related to mine in terms of dealing with vector fields.
Some others I need to thank are Christopher Smith, who helped me immensely during my first PRs for SymPy, Aaron, the SymPy head, who took the pains to comment on all my stupid coding mistakes in my initial work, Manoj Kumar, Priyans Murarka, Jay Rambhia and Divyansh Khanna who were great supports during my application period. Thanks to all of you, I am penning my first ever blog post :-)
I hope I have a great 3 months coding for GSoC. I do realise it's not gonna be very easy, and I am bound to get stuck at times, but I hope to live up to my proposal(https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSOC-2013-Application:-Sachin-Joglekar:-Electromagnetism-module) and finish well what I intend to do, to begin with.
The past few months have been very eventful and anxious at the same time, I hope I can work in peace now.
The past few months have been very eventful and anxious at the same time, I hope I can work in peace now.
A lot more blog posts are going to come, mostly about my GSoC work, but some also about the other interesting coding things I do here and there. Hope I live up to the expectations of the SymPy community :-).
