Our working Sunday..

It was almost nearing midnight on Saturday when all of us were lethargic and drowsy. We hadn't progressed much all this week since we had started to think that there was lots of time left and the others had not even started. So we all went to bed deciding to meet online on Sunday ( a little later than 9 am). I didn't set my alarm too.

I got up to the tinkling sound the "ghante" at 9.30 am ( Anirudh does sandhyavandane everyday without fail). I was sipping the milk when Anusha called me online. We all had received a mail from Sir which truly was a wake-up call for us. It was time we understood a simple fact that there was nothing wrong in him having certain expectations from us, when he is giving us his time and guiding us in return for nothing . We were hit by the mail brutally and we all worked for more than 8 hours , of course with some progress. (Ms Ambika excluded. She is absconding since 10 days ;) )

We decided to be sincere students and work harder.

We started the day off by learning SVN. It became less complicated since Anusha had done a Phd on it since a month. She knew almost all the required commands and links useful for us. We were successful in committing version 1 of a test file. We created a repository to store our files and got stuck while importing the files to the repository. I am guessing there is a problem with the permissions which we will resolve soon enough. Bhuvan was watching the tutorials on how to create a plug-in( Though I doubt if he was live-streaming the cricket match in between ;) ).

It has been 2 weeks since we started implementation and we could not develop more than 2 modules. We are lacking in this aspect because we dont know the simple tricks in programming. We got stuck with an error for 2 full days without knowing what it was when our Sir could debug it in less than 15 minutes. We failed because we didn't use Pdb. Had we learnt this tool a month back it would have saved us those 2 days. That was the day when we first realized the importance of that tool. It is so easy to debug the errors now!

We have snippets of codes written and stored everywhere on the disk with different names. As the number of modules keep increasing, I am finding it difficult to maintain all of them. When i want to include some module in a program, I go and search for it on the disk. Clearly shows that I am wasting my time. So Sir taught us how to modularize all our codes and to create a library which will help us stay organized. I can create my own library and when Bhuvan or Anusha want to use one of my modules, they can directly include it. This saves a lot of time and effort!

I had forgotten for a while that we are not doing an ordinary project but an extraordinary one!  :-) I feel glad to be a part of such a project with constant motivation by our Sir and my fellow simplifiers. I am sure all "text-simplify" mates are motivated and charged up to work harder. In the end, we all want to see the project being a huge success.

Cheers!

P.s:- I really want to appreciate Bhuvan who sat in front of the computer doing the TS project (hopefully) despite the over hyped India vs England WC match going on since afternoon :)