Hi Brent, Would scoutess [1] fit there? There still are *many* things to do in scoutess, and these things can be split up in pretty simple tasks. And when you say 4 weeks, you mean aside from the other courses they have I guess?
[1] http://patch-tag.com/r/alpmestan/scoutess/wiki/ On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Brent Yorgey <byor...@seas.upenn.edu>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am currently teaching a half-credit introductory Haskell class for > undergraduates. This is the second time I've taught it. The last > time, for their final project I gave them the option of contributing > to an open-source project; a couple groups took me up on it and I > think it ended up being a modest success. > > So I'd like to do it again this time around, and am looking for > particular projects I can suggest to them. Do you have an open-source > project with a few well-specified tasks that a relative beginner (see > below) could reasonably make a contribution towards in the space of > about four weeks? I'm aware that most tasks don't fit that profile, > but even complex projects usually have a few "simple-ish" tasks that > haven't yet been done just because "no one has gotten around to it > yet". > > If you have any such projects, I'd love to hear about it! > > Here are a few more details: > > * The students will be working on the projects from approximately the > end of this month through the end of April. > > * By "relative beginner" I mean someone familiar with the material > listed here: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/lectures.html and just > trying to come to terms with Applicative and Monad. They definitely > do not know much if anything about optimization/profiling, GADTs, > the mtl, or Haskell-programming-in-the-large. (Although part of the > point of the project is to teach them a bit about > programming-in-the-(medium/large)). > > * What I would hope from you is a willingness to exchange email and/or > chat with the student(s) over the course of the project, to give > them a bit of guidance/mentoring. I am certainly willing to help on > that front, but of course I probably don't know much about your > particular project. > > thanks! > -Brent > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Alp Mestanogullari
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