gaiyatrijain

Day 1
I decided I wanted to learn a low level language and I chose C. I spent the first day learning the fundamentals but ultimately thought project based learning would be the most informative.

Day 2
I wanted to do something with real data and kept thinking about how environmental agencies publish river monitoring data publicly, but there’s no simple local tool to actually query it, you usually need a web connection or proprietary software. I thought I could build a fast, offline C tool that any field researcher could drop a CSV into.

I sketched out the features I’d actually want:
Load any CSV from a monitoring dataset
Get summary statistics in one shot
Flag readings that suggest flood conditions
Spot pollution events
Drill into a specific station’s history
Export filtered results for reporting

The next 3 days, I fleshed out features. I put a full devlog in the repo :)

I’m working on my first project! This is so exciting. I can’t wait to share more updates as I build.