2013/3/11 Brent Yorgey <[email protected]>: > 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. > > 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. During the next two > weeks they would be contacting you to discuss the possibility of > working on your project. > > * 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.
Maybe it is a too small project (and not a contribution to an existing project), but a Haskell wrapper around PostgreSQL setproctitle code would be nice (something similar exists in the Python world). Otherwise I have began some "infrastructure" projects on GitHub that are all pretty simple but could be damn useful: curved is meant to be a drop-in-replacement for graphite (it is almost the case), sentry is a process-monitoring tool, humming is a job queue on top of PostgreSQL, hlinode is a binding to the Linode API, ... They all have in common that they are small, self-contained, and quite often just massaging around rawSystem calls, database "execute" calls, or GET/POST calls. Thu _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
