Hi. On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:50 AM Alec Korotney <ako...@umich.edu> wrote: > > To whom it may concern: > My name is Alec Korotney. I am currently an undergraduate at University of > Michigan majoring in mathematics and computer science. I apologize if this is > not the right place to post my personal introduction, and if not, by all > means please let me know where I can send it instead.
Yes, this is the right place to introduce yourself. > > I am in a software engineering class whose final project is to contribute to > an open-source Github project, and I am interested in contributing to Sympy. > I've cloned the repository and run the program and have also done my best to > read up on the different functionalities of Sympy. I am interested to start > searching for issues to work on, and any guidance would be immensely > appreciated. How significant does the contribution need to be? We have issues labeled "easy to fix" which are good issues to start with. > > To go over some information suggested in the "introduce yourself" guidelines, > I am more familiar with C++ than with Python; regardless, I still have > reasonable familiarity with Python and have used it from time to time in the > past year. I am in my third year of majoring in mathematics and am currently > in an Introduction to Mathematical Logic course as well as Honors Algebra, > and thus I would most likely call mathematics my "particular expertise." I am > most interested in dynamic programming and graph algorithms, especially > problems such as the Travelling Salesman problem or variations of the > Knapsack problem. Though I have not used Sympy before, I am quite familiar > with LaTeX symbolic notation for mathematical symbols as I have used it on > most of my homework assignments for the past year (and have used it to write > group papers in a mathematical research class). SymPy covers a lot of mathematics, including a lot that you probably haven't learned yet. I would suggest looking at the parts of SymPy that relate to things you have learned recently and enjoyed. Aaron Meurer > > I hope that I am able to join the Sympy community and start contributing to > my first ever Github project. Thank you so much for your time. > > Sincerely, > Alec Korotney > ako...@umich.edu > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/18740bae-90a4-412e-87f1-9bb319d53012n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KdktVkDqMcMvA%3DqQC_P2fUejfuXiygZn1J4JaYsnxukQ%40mail.gmail.com.
