Dear mentors/sponsors, It's been a while now (some years actually) that I'm using free software, and in the process I ended up in Debian (for some good reasons, including the policy).
One of the things I like is "standards", and Debian is for sure a source of standards for all linux distributions and also other OS's. After some time programming my own softwares to solve little problems, scientific problems, and some useful exercises to teach C, I decided it's time to do another step. I am ready to help a little more, starting with packaging one little guy I have here. I'll be very slow in this process, so I need a patient mentor, who speaks english better than me, to point out some problems, and maybe take a look at the documentation I provide. Also, and this is important to me, I would very like to find a mentor who are found of C language and its tricks, to get tips on deprecated functions, standards, directories of installation, and alike. My programs tend to use also lex and yacc from time to time. I would need help to find useful links, to learn who things is done the Debian way (in a lot of ways, since bash script, passing through C, shared libraries, upload tools -- like CVS or something new that is more used today, and so on). As I do have some pupils myself (I'm a teacher), I consider my obligation to learn very well, the correct way, once (because nobody has that much of free time to spend learning the wrong way to then need to relearn another), and that is because what I learn I will pass on to my students. So that is more responsibility on me. My first attempt will be a C library, I call "libeco.h", with lots of useful C functions that help my students to program. Some of the functions are more in the math area, others play music, most of them are just input/output helpers and wrappers (some may help to import old code from other OS, matching names from other libraries linux don't have). There is one particular function very nice that can read a mathematical expression and return the value to the caller (as simple as writing double e=geteval(), and you can read sin, cos, ln, and a lot of things, made with help of lex/yacc). The library is ready (the C code), but still I need to add comments to some of the functions, with examples. As for myself, I'm funny, friendly, easygoing. I like to write thanks and please a lot, and I enjoy to read it also. But I do love sarcasm, and I think there is no topic jokes can't be done (none at all, including that one you just thought and now you are thinking twice in become my mentor). Also, I have a job that takes a lot of my time, and I'll be doing the stuff I learn with my mentor for a long time, slowly but surely. If you find yourself qualified for the job, be welcome. Just remember, I wont pay you a penny. And after you started, you can't quit. Thanks any answer. Beco. PS. My second attempt package, maybe next year, would be a chess program. And also a "kind of new" computer language to teach algorithm. Not sure the order. But keep that in mind, so you may like your new job longer. -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caluyw2y-1r57amycfohm7oqtaasclxvy03gcwprx74nxsbu...@mail.gmail.com
