[ros-dev] Student Application

[Aleksey Bragin]

Dasha,
You possess one very good skill: English language. It's a key to 
everything else :-)

Seriously, it would be good if you could pick some other task than the 
NTFS driver, as it's too hard for a start. I am sure there are plenty of 
tasks involving some thorough development, but which could be mastered 
over time.

Regards,
Aleksey Bragin

On 12.03.2016 20:07, Dasha Che wrote:
>
> Hello, me again. First of all, thank you for the reply, I appreciate 
> it very much. So, I am by no means a pro if we’re being honest. I have 
> taken a couple online C++ programming courses which involved working 
> on small individual projects. They weren’t anything too crazy, just 
> multiple small problem sets, but I’d like to think that I understood 
> most of what I was doing. The reason I’m really interested in the 
> project that you’re working on is because I think it would be a really 
> interesting experience getting to work on a project with other people, 
> instead of picking away at something solo. The reason I picked the 
> NTDS Driver Development as one of the proposed projects was because, 
> firstly, I want to learn how to write code for a driver and do it 
> properly so that it worked how it was supposed to. Secondly, it would 
> be really cool to help expand and add-on to code that somebody else 
> has written. It’s like being given a pile of legos and told to create 
> something. Learning how to read, understand, and develop something 
> from things that are already there. I’ve never actually done any file 
> system driver development, but like I said earlier, I do pick up 
> things really quickly and I’m more than willing to read up on it.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Dasha Chekhovskaya
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org 
> <mailto:aleksey at reactos.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Dasha,
>     thanks for applying!
>
>     Could you be a little more specific regarding what C++ experience
>     you have, and what made you choose NTFS Driver Development as one
>     of the proposed projects? Do you have any background in
>     filesystems drivers development?
>
>     Anything counts, don't be shy! ;-)
>
>     Regards,
>     Aleksey Bragin
>
>
>     On 12.03.2016 7:21, Dasha Che wrote:
>>
>>     Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to apply to be a
>>     participant in your group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I
>>     have written out some of the information that you were asking for
>>     and I would be very grateful if you took the time to read over
>>     and consider it.
>>
>>
>>     General Info
>>
>>     Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya
>>
>>     Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English
>>
>>     Time Zone: Central Time Zone
>>
>>     ReactOS website account name:  N/A
>>
>>     IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka
>>
>>     Time Commitment
>>
>>     I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming
>>     summer. I have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how
>>     drive is a useful skill as we all know, but the course is only
>>     two weeks long either in the mornings or in the afternoons, so it
>>     shouldn’t really get in the way much. The second is boxing. I
>>     take boxing and kickboxing lessons and also help out with some of
>>     the kids classes. It’s generally Monday to Friday for a couple
>>     hours in the evening. Most of the time that I would be working on
>>     the project on would probably be in the morning, evening, and
>>     into the late evenings.
>>
>>
>>     Proposed Projects
>>
>>     -Folder Treeview in Explorer
>>     <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer
>>
>>     -Audio Mixer
>>
>>     <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer
>>
>>     -NTFS Driver Improvement
>>
>>     <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements
>>
>>
>>     One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have
>>     some precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other
>>     programming languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m
>>     always ready to listen and learn. I pick things up very quickly,
>>     so as long as I’m given pretty straight forward directions as to
>>     what needs to be done I, personally, have no doubts I’ll be able
>>     to figure out what to do.
>>
>>
>>     Best Regards,
>>
>>     Dasha Chekhovskaya
>>
>

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