Hi Dan: Just to share a little bit of my humble experience. I'm also a beginner and I'm intrested in "directory manipulation" related code. Tasks such as printing directory in a tree form etc.
So I search on Hackage and found several projects, most notably the Directory.Tree project. It's a very modest size project and could be an easy entry for some hacking. I'm sure you have your own interests in a specific type of problems. and I'm sure you can find a similar small project from Hackage. Happy hacking On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Dan Cristian Octavian < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > > Thank you for your encouraging reply. I understand your points and agree > for the most part, especially with the mentorship discussion that you made. > > I wasn't too sure about attempting to work on a more sizeable project > (although I preferred that) but if you are saying that it's a reasonable > thing to do, I might as well try that. I have already started checking out > the larger Haskell projects. > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Jeremy O'Donoghue < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> I am the maintainer of wxHaskell, but please don't let that worry you, as >> I'm actually not going to go on and recommend wxHaskell as an Open Source >> project for a relative beginner - it is architecturally complex, and you >> need to know as much C++ as you do Haskell. You might choose to *use* >> wxHaskell in any project you undertake, but that is a different matter. >> >> I'm also a software engineering manager in my day job, so I have a lot of >> experience of what a good intern (those who come to me have generally >> completed their second year of undergraduate studies in the UK) can achieve >> - usually in fairly hardcore embedded C++, but that's beside the point. >> >> On 11 April 2012 22:52, Dan Cristian Octavian <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> I am a second year computer science student who is very interested in >>> working on a haskell open source project. I have no particular focus on a >>> certain type of application. I am open to ideas and to exploring new >>> fields. What kind of project should I look for considering that I am a >>> beginner? (Any particular project proposals would be greatly appreciated). >>> >> >> Long experience of many types of software project tells me that before >> everything else you should choose something which interests you. You need a >> reason to want to understand, analyze and generally get stuck into a >> codebase, and having an interest is what gives you that motivation. >> >> At the same time, please don't let being a 'beginner' be too much of a >> barrier. I tell new interns that by the end of their internship they will >> be debugging multithreaded kernel-mode C++ code on an embedded target >> confidently and they look at me as though I am mad. However, they have all >> (so far) managed to succeed in doing just that kind of thing. Don't >> underestimate your ability to understand new concepts when you have a >> reason to focus hard on them. >> >> What will help you a great deal is good mentorship. Working on a project >> where the development team can take time to explain to you how (and why) >> they think things should be done in a particular way will accelerate your >> learning to a remarkable degree. Far more than 100 lectures, in fact. You >> should also try to choose a project which is well documented - this will >> help you to understand how everything hands together. >> >> Is the entry bar too high for most projects out there for somebody >>> lacking experience such as me so that I should try getting some experience >>> on my own first? >>> >> >> It is amazing what you can do when you actually make a start! I'm >> assuming that you are somewhat familiar with Haskell at this point (e.g. >> worked your way through most of Learn You a Haskell or Real World Haskell, >> and felt like you grasped at least 50% - if you haven't, do that first). >> >> The key is to start with something fairly small and then use it to build >> up to something bigger. Most sizeable projects (wxHaskell, Gtk2Hs, Darcs, >> Yi, Yesod and many others) will have things on the 'to do' list which are >> not too large and maintainers who should be able to help. >> >> Would it be a better idea to try to hack on my own project rather than >>> helping on an existing one? >>> >> >> I think you would learn more by contributing to an existing project. >> Whether that is of overwhelming importance is a question only you can >> answer. >> >> Regards >> Jeremy >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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