On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Brent Yorgey <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I am currently teaching a half-credit introductory Haskell class for > undergraduates. This is the third time I've taught it. Both of the > previous times, for their final project I gave them the option of > contributing to an open-source project; a couple groups/individuals > 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! Just send > me a paragraph or so describing your project and explaining what > task(s) you could use help with --- something that I could put on the > course website for students to look at. > Myself and several of my friends would find it useful to have a plotting library that we can use from ghci to quickly/easily visualize data. Especially if that data is part of a simulation we are toying with. Therefore, this proposal is for: A gnuplot-, matlab- or plotinum-like plotting API (that uses diagrams as the backend?). The things to emphasize: * Easy to install: No gtk2hs requirement. Preferably just pure haskell code and similar for any dependencies. Must be cross platform. * Frontend: graphs should be easy to construct; customizability is not as important * Backend: options for generating static images are nice, but for the use case we have in mind also being able to render in a window from ghci is very valuable. (this could imply something as purely rendering to JuicyPixels and I could write the rendering code) > * 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. > I am willing/able to take on the mentoring aspect :) Jason
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