Hi Pedro,

The Microsoft Management Console sounds like it could be a good start for you to improve your skills.

This is a project which would be better suited to C++, so you wouldn’t have to stick to C.

It also uses XML for loading snap-ins and it quite well documented, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble looking for information to help you.

Although there are aspects of COM within the MMC, you will also require knowledge of the win32 API and the windows GUI / windowing.

You should also take into consideration that reactos doesn’t have MFC or ATL available, so you would need to rely on the base win32 API and your own skills.

If you’d like to chat further about this or anything else, please feel free to either use this mailing list or come and visit us in IRC.

IRC might be better in this situation as it’s much easier to converse.

Regards,

Ged Murphy.

From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of perencia
Sent: 21 March 2011 12:25
To: ros-dev@reactos.org
Subject: [ros-dev] GSOC Self-Presentation

Hi!,

my name is Pedro, and i'm a 5th grade student of computer science in Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona ( Spain ).

I'd like to apply in this gsoc, i've always wanted to be part of an open-source project, i think it can be a really profitable and exciting experience to share ideas and discuss them with other motivated coders.

Now as i'm finishing my last year i've found myself  attracted by low-level questions. I've been aware of ReactOS for some time now -  couple of years ago I downloaded the code and submitted a patch for the build system - actually, very silly patch :). 

About the projects proposed, some of them seem a bit heavy for me. At first the ACPI Hal cought my attention, since i'm doing my final year project en the energy-performance tradeoff in multi-cores, but it seems very daunting, i have no experience in kernel development nor drivers. Although is in Java where i'm really experienced, I'm confident with c and c++, and i'm very interested in COM, I've done some of it in DirectX and i really enjoyed that, so i thought the MMC Console seems more affordable.

Anyway, i'd like to get some advice, if that's possible, about where i could direct myself, which project my profile may fit better or which has greater priority, and what can i do to start getting in contact to the project and make a better apply proposal. 

I hope this would be a beginning of a great and profitable experience for me and the community :)