EPF Dev Update #4

tl;dr:

• Presented my project proposal.
• Wrote about Trin's architecture.

Project proposal presentation

I started this week by finishing up my slides and getting ready to present my project proposal. Then, I presented it during the office hours call.

You can see my project proposal here, my slides here, and the recording of my presentation here (I start at minute 2:05).

Trin's architecture

I spent the rest of the week learning about how trin, especially the History Network, works.

My first attempt was to analyze the trin-history crate. I quickly realized that it was better to understand the whole system and then see how that crate fits. So, I looked into how trin starts up, including the functions it calls and the "objects" it creates.

I spent a pretty good amount of time there and wrote this draft document. It definitely helped me understand how Trin works, but maybe that wasn't the most productive approach.

I felt that the whole process was hard and slow. There was a lot of info to unpack and many places to start. And when I unraveled something, a new chunk of code I didn't understand came up.

Maybe it's just my learning style, or my lack of experience documenting the architecture of a program, but I think it would be way better for me to understand the project while I write code for it. And then, when I get to "load" the program in my head, I could try finishing the architecture document.