I see. You're right, that should be the main concern. I will try to make a 'list of tasks' or some sort of schedule and post it here to see if it matches the project's priority, even though I pretend to keep contributing after the program and so any other features/ suggestions would be implemented as well.
On Feb 23, 11:49 pm, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:26 PM, dekozo > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Playing around quickly on WolframAlpha, SymPy Live and Gamma SymPy I > > noticed some features on Wolfram that would be nice to implement on > > the other sites. > > > - Link to share 'sessions' or results on the queries made on both > > sites > > - Related queries (Suggested based on your previous searches) > > - Add queries/sessions to favorites > > - Download the results in .pdf or .tex (any other format that would > > be useful as well) > > - Plotting roots when solving, showing areas when integrating among > > other options. > > A very important thing that you're missing is that we need to extend > the operations that are performed on the input. Right now, it just > does derivative, integral, and series expansion. This should be > extended to do many more things, and try to be smart based on the > input about what it does (much like WolframAlpha). I think that this > particular job may actually take up a big chunk of the project, as > it's a non-trivial problem to solve (or at least if you want to do it > well). > > Aaron Meurer > > > > > > > > > > > As well as the suggested ideas on the site such as parsing expressions > > that are not in the SymPy syntax. > > Do you think it would be good? Any other features to implement? (I'm > > gonna be playing around more later but for now that's the things I've > > thought) > > > On Feb 23, 5:12 pm, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is a GUI for IPython, which is their qtconsole. I think it > >> would be a waste of time to rewrite something like that. Perhaps it > >> would be possible to extend that to make things work better with > >> SymPy. I don't actually know to what degree it is extensible. Maybe > >> you could be more specific on what you want to do here. > > >> The SymPy Live/Gamma project is a nice one. There are plenty of > >> things that could be done to improve these. Just play around with > >> them, and then play with something like WolframAlpha (using math; we > >> don't really care so much about the other knowledge stuff), and see > >> how they differ. You'll see that there are a lot of good ideas in > >> WolframAlpha that we can implement, and there are also things that > >> they don't do so well that we could improve upon. > > >> We have the potential to make a more compelling product than > >> WolframAlpha because, unlike Mathematica, SymPy is free, so we will > >> not have any "Pro" restrictions, and if the user wants, he can just > >> download SymPy onto his computer and continue computations there. > > >> Aaron Meurer > > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM, dekozo > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hello, I'm interested in participating on gsoc 2012 and since I'm > >> > comfortable with python and I really like math, sympy seems to be the > >> > only sane choice. I started contributing by translating the site into > >> > Portuguese but I had an idea worth of a gsoc project (I guess). > >> > I think the examples would be more effective if there was a GUI > >> > (curses/gtk/qt or whatever) which the user could modify the code, > >> > where he could input any valid value and also have the inputs that > >> > already are available on the examples as suggestions. > >> > Since my math skills are no match to several other applicants (I > >> > presume), I think I could help by improving the SymPy-live and/or > >> > Gamma SymPy websites by making it more 'user friendly' and adding some > >> > of the others SymPy features as suggested on the github page for gsoc > >> > ideas (https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gsoc-2012-Ideas). > >> > Can someone give me suggestions for the applications and if the GUI > >> > examples project would be worth of doing on gsoc? Thanks. > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "sympy" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected]. > >> > For more options, visit this group > >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "sympy" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
