An addition to PyStarts Gui and GSoC Questions….

I needed to create a small dialog to enter details for created lessons. Authors, HTMLFile locations, etc… At this point I realized I could refactor this code and make it pass variables in a better manner. So I will be slowly moving the my code to a more organized manner. At this point it is becoming hard for me to visuallize my code. At only 550 lines you would think I could see and understand things better, but it hard.

Knowing this give me a lot of respect for people that read HUGE programs. An amazing ability… props to ya’ll for that.

Last night on voice call with my Mentor we went over the questions of the students servey questions, which don’t vary much from the Mentor’s. It sounded crazy but they had answers like the following (with my comments):

F. I still have not made contact with my mentoring organization.
ARE YOU INSANE! I sure hope people don’t have to answer that.
A. Every day.
They didn’t have Ceriberal Connection so I guess that will have to do.
F. Our interactions exceed my expectations both frequency and quality-wise.
I will say it over and over, This is on the top best things I have done in my life. Few things beat this one out.
B. Somewhat active (e.g. I read and sometimes responds to mailing lists, some interaction in community communication channels)
I feel the community is doing the best they can. Ubuntu is a huge project and if I am not pleading for help why should they do things for me if they are helping others.
C. I am on schedule.
I wish I were ahead. But I think this project is jsut what it is supposed to be. Possible, but not impossible. I need to be pushed or I don’t think it is far. I hear about people in GSoC that burn threw a week of programming and finnish. Sadly, I don’t think that is proper. It is to help programmers be inovative. I hope that the mentor for those programs will require more of them than the plan.
A. Exceeds my personal expectations
I have had so much FUN! It is great learning programming in this manner. I am not in the frame of mind where I see something on a computer and think, “I could do something like that, how could I make that even better.” The hard part is holding my self down and sticking to my current commitments.

and last…

Category: Overall Sanity Check
Question 1: Do you feel that Summer of Code is going well enough for you?
A. Yes
Heh… I thought it funny at first to have that ask that. But I guess there are others that don’t feel so great. I am sane as any programmer could be. It weighs on my mind at just the right pressure.

Don’t forget, anyone that would like to review my code… http://launchpad.net/pystart/ it would be nice if we had a few more people I could chat with if they have the time.

I hope to get my money from GSoC before I leave on vacation. Boy, that would save me the worries about the credit card. (That means I am confident that I am doing good enough to keep going with GSoC. )

Thanks Ubuntu!

Jason