Hi Sumol Sorry for the late reply, I've been kind of buried with work. Anyway, it's good to see that you are willing to work on the vector module. As the others have already mentioned, I am currently working on the vector module myself and have done quite a bit of work in it - but it is yet to be completed.
This vector module supports a very generic declaration of vectors - a vector can be made up of several different coordinate systems positioned and oriented in space. Then, there are the usual vector operations defined on the vectors. The support for differential operations is pretty much done with - grad and div functions are working. I still need to finish up with the curl function - it has already been written, I just need ot test and remove some typos, I think. Once the differentiation part is completed, I'd like to move on to the integration of the vector fields in space. I have already written some code on this part as well - though I am not sure how well it will work. But, the iverall work on integration fucntions and classes will be somewhat more challenging that the work done on differential functions. And, with the done, we'll have a working vector module! Okay then. To begin, please browse through the comments on this thread : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sympy/t-Je0beTIIU%5B101-125-false%5D I realize that this is a *huge *thread - no need to read every single line. Just browse through it once, reading over the things that seem related to the design of the classes, etc. Also, note that there were some drastic changes to the initial design - so also just look at the code here : https://github.com/prasoon2211/sympy/tree/vector/sympy/vector in the vector.py file. I have added a couple of examples in the docstrings of methods that will, I believe, help you understand the underlying design. Okay, that's it for now I guess. If you really want to work on this, then, please try to understand the design of the project first - the class structure, how are the vectors formed etc. Once you understand that, things will be much easier. If you need further help, please don't at all hesitate to contact me or any of the other members here. Hope that was helpful. Prasoon On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:10:27 AM UTC+5:30, Sumol wrote: > > Hi, > My name is Sumol Lodha. I'm a 3rd year Computer Science Engineering > student. I'm > interested to work for SymPy for GSoC 2014 and seeing the previous years > projects, I have very much interest in topics related Maths and > Physics(especially vector calculus). Any pointers on how should I proceed > ?. Also I am new to open source development and would like to explore it. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Sumol. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
