The problem is I really do not have a lot of code written. I could fish out 
my old assignments from my intro CS course (in Java) several years back, 
which would probably not be very good, since I have learned quite a lot 
since then. Would you say not very good code is better than no code? I just 
started doing a course on Coursera and did the first assignment, which 
deals with an interesting problem of 
Percolation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory>. 
Nothing fancy in terms of coding, and it was also in Java, but it might be 
the best I have. I had this idea to rewrite it in Python and expand its API 
to deal with a more general case I was wondering about. I guess I would 
just push it on github and work on it. It will probably be a work in 
progress though when you look at it. 

I really appreciate all the help you gave me. Quick question if you have 
the time. I am working on my proposal right now. I think I will propose to 
implement similar functionality as parts of FeynCalc, but ultimately 
focusing on building it on top of (as in using) current SymPy modules, like 
tensor, named groups, gamma matrices, maybe some algebraic geometry. Any 
such project would probably end up expanding, or fixing a lot of small 
things across multiple modules and then using those to build a new module 
to deal with field theories. I feel though for the three months available 
over the summer, it will likely have minimal functionality, since most of 
the time would be spend on tweaking different parts of the current code to 
fit my needs. 

I think this would be really useful, since it will (hopefully) provide a 
solid base to expand the "field theory" module after that. My concern is 
that it might sound like I will not accomplish anything substantial by the 
end of the summer, making it a bad project review-wise. 

Any thoughts?


On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:58:10 PM UTC-4, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Peter Petrov 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Yeah you guys have been awesome. Did not expect nearly as much attention 
> and 
> > feedback. Just finished my PR, took longer than expected, but it was the 
> > first time I did anything like this. 
> > 
> > Will go work on the proposal now. 
>
> Since you only have this little PR, you should push some other code 
> that you wrote on your github (https://github.com/pppetrov) so that we 
> can see how you code and reference it from the application. 
>
> Ondrej 
>
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:25:53 PM UTC-4, Anurag Sharma wrote: 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> >I realize it is a really long shot to get the funding, but the last 
> 40 
> >>> > hours have been so much fun, that I will definitely try and work in 
> the 
> >>> > community as much as I can. I want to get hands on experience >with 
> coding 
> >>> > and this looks like the perfect place for me to start, given that I 
> can 
> >>> > actually apply my knowledge of physics and learn a lot about 
> computer 
> >>> > science at the same time. 
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for all the help. 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>  Hi Peter 
> >> Do apply. Its a great community and each of us can benefit from other's 
> >> expertise. :) 
> >> On a personal note it feels like we are all together to help you meet 
> the 
> >> deadline which in itself is a great feeling :) 
> >> 
> >> Best of luck 
> >> Anurag 
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