Also, I'd like to know at what time the GSoC mentors could be available for a brief chat on IRC..[please specify the time in IRC]. And if I'm not mistaken, the channel is #gnucap at freenode right?
Thanks, On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Tejas Nikumbh <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:55 AM, al davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The suggested project is to use octave to build a user-friendly >> extendable flexible graphic display for gnucap. If you want to >> do this you should first be intimately familiar with octave in >> this kind of application. You should be able to show us >> examples of how you have done this. Otherwise, you could spend >> the whole summer learning the basics of octave, which is not >> what we want. I see this as mostly programming in octave, very >> little C++. >> > > > Thanks for the response. I have a good experience of octave as well. I > took a Machine Learning class, assignments of which, I had to entirely do > in Octave. > > Could you specify a little task for me which would help you as well as me > to guage my preparedness for the Octave Interfacing project? > > If you want to program in C++, you might be better off with the >> other approach, writing a new graphic display program or graphic >> display plugin. You need to learn GTK, but I think that should >> be easier than learning advanced octave if you don't already >> know it. > > > Are there any projects with GNUCap which involve learning GTK? I'd be more > than happy to learn something new and contribute towards GNUCap via a GTK > based project as well. > > Also, could you provide me some pointers to learning GTK, assuming that I > am good at C++? I would go through the resources and later ask you for a > little task that could help you as well as me guage my preparedness for > this kind of project. > > Thanks, > > > -- > Tejas Nikumbh, > Fourth Year Undergraduate, > Electrical Engineering Department, > IIT Bombay. > -- Tejas Nikumbh, Fourth Year Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. _______________________________________________ Gnucap-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
