Hi Matt, On Mar 20, 5:32 am, Matthew <mrock...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
The matrices module was written by a GSoC student some time ago. Most of the basic stuff is implemented, but the interface could be improved. If you want to choose this as a project, I guess you'll have to find some more advanced functionality to implement. Adding pure python numpy-like ndarray support to sympy would be nice. This probably requires a lot of work. > Brian Granger's quantum physics projects seem appropriate. > I'm also tangentially interested in code generation. Any suggestions > on this front? Øyvind worked on this during last GSoC, so he may have some suggestions. > Anyone have thoughts for applications in education? Something like > sympy might aid significantly in learning calculus for example. I think sympy has a lot of potential in education. If you want to know, you can easily look up the implementation (using ?? or the source() command). Do you have any thoughts? To me, this is a not-so- obvious project to do. > Can anyone think of projects that would be appropriate for someone of > my background that haven't yet been added to the ideas list? Any project about statistics or uncertainity. My suggestion is to choose the project that interests you the most (given that it is a project that is likely to be accepted). Vinzent -- 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.
