Talha Başıbüyük - bounswe/bounswe2025group2 GitHub Wiki

Hello, I'm Talha. I am a third-year Computer Engineering student at Boğaziçi University. I am interested in Deep Learning, LLMs and AI in general. I am a part of Cognitive Learning and Robotics (CoLoRs) Lab. (You can see my weekly efforts here.)

I am most comfortable with:

• Java
• Python

But I have experience with these as well: C, C++, C#, SQL, HTML/CSS, RISC-V Assembly

• Reading fiction, especially web novels.
• Grand Strategy games (EU4, Civ6, CK3 etc.)
• Near history of Europe and Far East, also geography in general
• Following AI-related news
• I am also currently learning Chinese. 你好，我叫书桦.

Email: [email protected]

Week 1 (13/02/25 - 20/02/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Markdown Research	1 hour	#13
Adding a personal page	1.5 hour	#13
Researching Git	2 hour	#19
Exemplary Repos Page	1 hour	#19
Reviewing Issues	30 minutes	#7 (I actually reviewed but my friend preemptively closed the issue.)

Attended meetings

• Meeting 1
• Meeting 2

Week 2 (20/02/25 - 27/02/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Creating the Challenges&Leaderboard Requirements	2 hours	#32
Reviewing Issues	30 minutes	#33

Attended meetings

• Meeting 3
• Meeting 4

Week 3 (27/02/25 - 06/03/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Revising the Requirements	1.5 hours	#53
Reviewing Issues	1.5 hours	#34, #45, #48

Attended meetings

• Meeting 5
• Meeting 6
• Customer Meeting 1

Week 4 (06/03/25 - 13/03/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Reviewing Issues	30 minutes	#59

Attended meetings

• Meeting 7

Week 5 (13/03/25 - 20/03/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Making the sequence diagram for Claiming a Reward via Leaderboard	4 hours	#64

Attended meetings

• Meeting 8
• Meeting 9

Week 6 (20/03/25 - 27/03/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Adding the weekly efforts	2 hours	#71
Reviewing Issues	45 minutes	#73, #76

Week 7 (27/03/25 - 03/04/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Reviewing Issue	30 minutes	#88

• Meeting 10
• Mobile Team Meeting 1

Week 8 (03/04/25 - 11/04/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Learning JavaScript	6 hours	No issue opened

• From now on the meetings will be done on saturdays so will weekly reports end
• Meeting 11

Week 9 (11/04/25 - 19/04/25)

Task	Duration	Issues
Reviewing Issues	30 minutes	#95, #104
Researching React Native	6 hours	No issue opened

• Meeting 12
• Mobile Team Meeting 2

Week 10 (19/04/25 - 26/04/25)

Task	Duration	Issues / PRs
Reviewing Issue	30 minutes	#105
Added Meeting note 12	30 minutes	#130
Updating Sequence Diagram	1 hour	#132

Week 11 (26/04/25 - 03/05/25)

This week was an off week for me because I was badly ill.

Week 12 (03/05/25 - 10/05/25)

Task	Duration	Issues / PRs
Same for this week, I mostly tried to catch up with other coursework and reviewed JavaScript&ReactNative knowledge.

• Meeting 15

Week 13 (10/05/25 - 14/05/25)

Task	Duration	Issues / PRs
Implement Notifications in mobile	10 hours	#140, #269
Reviewing issues and PRs	4 hours	#199, #231, #252, #268, #286, #287

I use the Giphy API to fetch a random fitness-themed GIF for motivation.
It leverages the Random GIF endpoint (/v1/gifs/random) with my API key and the tag=fitness parameter.