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Weekly Check-In #1 : Pygame POC

shivamshan
Published: 06/27/2022

This post marks the beginning of my official GSoC coding period. Starting from this post I will try to update everyone reading these posts about my weekly progress and the difficulties that I faced. So let's get to it.

What did I do this week?

According to my proposal I was supposed to spend the first two weeks closing the previous PRs and implementing a basic sqlite wrapper that could be further extended for the Bases se datos lecture. However, since no major PRs were required to be closed, me and my mentors decided that I should better complete the Pygame POC that was still not in place. Although we had decided upon how we wanted the Pygame lectures to be implemented, there was no proof-of-concept that actually showed that our idea would work. So I spent my first week preparing a basic Pygame wrapper.

What is coming up next?

Next, we have have decided to complete the SQL wrapper and get that PR merged. Doing so we will have put both our proof-of-concepts in place and then we can start designing the lectures (if we don't run into any bugs😝). 

Did I get stuck anywhere?

I think there isn't going to be a week where the answer to this question is going to be "No" 😂. I definitely got stuck at many places. First of all I couldn't decide upon a particular idea that I wanted to go forward with. I had two options that me and my mentors had decided previously. I could use the old and unmaintained(😖) brython fork of pygame and build my wrapper using this or I could use gamejs API and build my wrapper around that. Although the second option sounded better, this meant I had to design the Pygame wrapper from scratch and that would take more time than I had. The problem with the first option was that it was not well maintained and had too many bugs. I tried my best to make it work by sorting out some bugs but soon realised it was not enough to implement the lectures. I had made a PR earlier to show that some parts of this old fork could be used but still couldn't be finally used.

 

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Week 0 : a nuevos comienzos 🌅

shivamshan
Published: 06/24/2022

Hey everyone, I am Shivam Shandilya, final year student at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. This blogs aims to serve as a medium to record my experience as a contributor for PyZombis project under Python Argetina with PSF.

In this blog I will try my best to share the problems I face as I proceed and the thought process that I hope will get me to the final solution. I also plan to share with the readers the inputs received from my mentors so we know what areas required what kind of work.

This week marks the beginning of my GSoC experience and this time has been provided to us to bond with fellow contributors in this program. I had the pleasure to talk to some of the contributors of other projects and know their experience of getting into GSoC. I also had the opportunity to share my experience of open source and Python Argentina. We all agreed that it was the promptness and willingness of the maintainers to help us anytime that got us through. Thus I would like to begin my journey by thanking my mentors Mariano Reingart and Utkarsh Kumar for their help and constant support.

Looking for a great summer with you all.

                                                         

 

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