Add week 2 progress on the CHIP-8 AIEP project

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+title: Display CHIP-8 screen on a window
+lead: Sriprad Potukuchi
+date: 24 March 2024
+summary: The linker has been conquered, raylib flawlessly integrated with the project and made some good use of!
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+## Mentees vs. The Linker
+Majority of the time was spent trying to learn the C build process. Countless hours dedicated to defeating the Mighty Linker _finally_ yielded fruit!
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+It was especially not easy to build a consistent dev environment across Windows, Mac _and_ Linux! All three of which are being used by the mentees.
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+We ended up creating multiple Makefiles. One for each platform, each with its own platform specific quirks. Each with its own set of linker flags.
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+## The display
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+A clean project structure was decided upon. No more source files in the project root!
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+The linker knowledge was put to good use by linking the project against raylib. GUI, here we come!
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+![An early implementation of the CHIP-8 interpreter](https://imgur.com/a/WJXS9ag)
+*A proof of concept display featuring a 64x32 grid of pixels and a dump of a few registers*
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+The mentees have very quickly learnt the usage of raylib (thanks in part to its super simple API) and have learnt what goes into building a GUI application like the one shown above. It is now up to them to make it aesthetically pleasing and more functional. Will they succeed? Stay tuned to find out!
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+**Week 2 verdict**: The mentees have showcased ingenuity and a commendable amount of patience as we debugged our way through.