Hi Richard, On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Richard Fateman <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > My feeling is that it does not do anyone a service to have a student embark > on a project where he or she does not look at the state of the art in that > area. > The student does not learn much and the project does not benefit from the > effort. Worse, any "senior" effort to guide this project further detracts > from the overall set of tasks. > > I do not view writing a bunch of code in python as a necessary good. > > I do not know if GSOC will fund such things, but I would be embarrassed > to propose projects where the proposers have not done any homework > and are just proposing to write code pretty much off the top of their head. > > Sorry I don't have the patience to be gentle.
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