I have written my first week experience on my blog. The link to it can be found here [1]. It was rough a ride and learnt a lot of things about python library (pygit2) for git and how you can build your own github version purely in python. 

Looking forward to hear from others about their progress.

[1] https://medium.com/@rahulrrixe/its-a-baby-step-and-still-a-long-way-to-go-7349d5c5de84