The project requires me to work on either "one large issue" or "several smaller issues," and I am most likely leaning toward the latter. Thank you for the response, I've been reading more about Sympy and I'm definitely thinking this is the project I want to contribute to for my class :)
On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 4:17:03 PM UTC-4 asme...@gmail.com wrote: > 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+un...@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/f0a772a0-d313-44c6-b8a5-5be0538e84b0n%40googlegroups.com.
