My SoK Journey

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Greetings Samarth Raj,

Congratulations! Not just on your completion of SoK, but also writing up
your experience so clearly. It's very inspiring.

Thank you!

Valorie

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 1:00 PM Samarth Raj <mailforsamarth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, I am Samarth Raj. I participated in SoK’22 as a contributor to
> GCompris. I added a new activity “left right click training
> <https://phabricator.kde.org/T15124>”
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> At first, I was very nervous and skeptical about me completing this
> activity. Because before this, I had only worked on a minor issue (implementing
> the undo-all button in chess activity
> <https://invent.kde.org/education/gcompris/-/merge_requests/91>), and
> this was going to be my first significant contribution towards GCompris.
> But mentors helped me understand Qt/Qml. In the first few weeks, I was
> really slow because all this was too overwhelming for me, but after giving
> it time, I  started making progress. Understanding the documentation plays
> a huge role because after this, I converted my thought process into code
> and discussed with mentors to understand the optimal way to implement a
> certain thing.
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> One of the major learnings during this period was writing clean code
> because when we are writing code for an application which is widely used
> and has so many active users such as GCompris, then we need to keep in my
> mind that the code needs to be clean and easy to understand even if a
> beginner is trying to understand or someone who is having no context about
> it.
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> It makes me proud that now I can call myself a successful contributor to
> open source. I am grateful to my mentors (Emmanuel, Harsh, Johnny and
> Timothee) for helping me throughout the journey and for solving all my
> doubts, no matter how silly they were.
>
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> I look forward to more contributions in future.
>


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