Hello SymPy Community, I'm looking for an interesting project to work on during some free time I have this Summer and I'm wondering if we're a good fit. Here is a bit about me:
I'm a PhD student studying Computer Science at the University of Chicago with a background in Physics and Mathematics. I'm a heavy user of Python and its open source developments but have never contributed more than bug reports. I code a fair amount but it's all research- grade and not suitable for public use. My goal for this project would be to focus on crafting code and a clear end-user experience rather than focusing on a scientific research question. I would also like to engage and join the Python community a bit; I've always been "just an end-user." I'm searching for an appropriate project for a summer. I'm looking over the provided list and at the existing functionality in SymPy. I have a few ideas but I'd appreciate suggestions. My interests include the following: Scientific Computing (generally), Numerical Linear Algebra, Physics (generally), Geometry/Relativity, Dynamical Systems, Statistics (generally), Uncertainty/Sensitivity, Optimization, Education. Thoughts: My ideal project would be to develop a code-base for General Relativity. However I see that someone else already has some code that they're thinking of contributing. Would it be best to wait on this? Are there supporting aspects of this topic that I could help with (reworking tensors for example). Relevant thread here: http://goo.gl/zRmDs I could probably improve sympy Matrices. I'm curious, how many people use the existing functionality? What are common applications for symbolic matrices? If I go this route I want to make sure that there are some good motivating use cases. I wonder if something akin to numpy's ndarray would be appropriate to merge both this and the above topic. A lot of functionality is shared and currently (I think) codeveloped in both branches. Brian Granger's quantum physics projects seem appropriate. I'm also tangentially interested in code generation. Any suggestions on this front? Anyone have thoughts for applications in education? Something like sympy might aid significantly in learning calculus for example. Can anyone think of projects that would be appropriate for someone of my background that haven't yet been added to the ideas list? Thanks all for your time and input, -Matt http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~mrocklin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
