Hi All,
This shall be my introductory post for this blog and I shall keep you posted regarding my journey of Google Summer of Code, 2014 with the organization SunPy, an open-source solar data analysis environment for Python.
So, first thing first. I shall start with a brief introduction about myself. My name is Rajul. I am a final year undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. My major is Chemistry, but my first and foremost love is computing. I got my first computer at the age of 10. Our first two years together (me with my computer) were great fun, with me playing any game I could get my hands on for hours on end and opening up my computer like 10 times just to find how it worked on the inside. But, after two years of sheer gaming, I began to wonder how actually those games were made. And that pushed me into learning programming.
I kept learning new programming languages all through high school, like C/C++, Java, Python, and also undertook a few coding projects like a Personal Bank Account Management System and developed a console-based SNAKE just for fun. And, then came college.
This shall be my introductory post for this blog and I shall keep you posted regarding my journey of Google Summer of Code, 2014 with the organization SunPy, an open-source solar data analysis environment for Python.
So, first thing first. I shall start with a brief introduction about myself. My name is Rajul. I am a final year undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. My major is Chemistry, but my first and foremost love is computing. I got my first computer at the age of 10. Our first two years together (me with my computer) were great fun, with me playing any game I could get my hands on for hours on end and opening up my computer like 10 times just to find how it worked on the inside. But, after two years of sheer gaming, I began to wonder how actually those games were made. And that pushed me into learning programming.
I kept learning new programming languages all through high school, like C/C++, Java, Python, and also undertook a few coding projects like a Personal Bank Account Management System and developed a console-based SNAKE just for fun. And, then came college.
Here, I soon realized that my utmost passion was programming. My interest into programming soon turned into passion. I started to take more serious interest and took up a number of research projects in this field. I participated in a Google Summer of Code in 2012 with the organization Network Time Foundation and "Implemented a Logging and Debugging system for the NTP software". During the summer of 2013, I interned with the Market Risk IT team with the Global Technology division at Barclays. I also pursued an internship with Techpreneurs, a start-up in the field of social networking. I am currently working on my final year thesis project titled "Chemical Network System for analysis and visualization of Chemical Reactions". Besides I have also worked on a number of academic projects, ranging in a number of field like Computational Chemistry, Finance, and Bio-informatics.
I am participating in GSoC'2104 to work on the project "A Ginga based database explorer/browser". The proposal can be found at [1]. I am really excited about this project, hopefully I shall be able to produce something worthwhile at the end of the summers.
Rajul! Thanks for the wonderful introduction! We, at SunPy, are looking forward to see how much stuff we can do together. Hopefully SunPy will be one of the stuff you will remember with a big smile in the future.
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