[Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

[Kristopher Micinski]

The problem with all of these suggestions is that they start from no code.
 I believe Brent is looking for an *existing* project which needs
contributions.  I assume so that beginning Haskellers can learn real code
style in the middle to large, and get input from existing community members.

Kris


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Vo Minh Thu <noteed at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/3/11 Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am currently teaching a half-credit introductory Haskell class for
> > undergraduates.  This is the third time I've taught it.  Both of the
> > previous times, for their final project I gave them the option of
> > contributing to an open-source project; a couple groups/individuals
> > took me up on it and I think it ended up being a modest success.
> >
> > So I'd like to do it again this time around, and am looking for
> > particular projects I can suggest to them.  Do you have an open-source
> > project with a few well-specified tasks that a relative beginner (see
> > below) could reasonably make a contribution towards in the space of
> > about four weeks? I'm aware that most tasks don't fit that profile,
> > but even complex projects usually have a few "simple-ish" tasks that
> > haven't yet been done just because "no one has gotten around to it
> > yet".
> >
> > If you have any such projects, I'd love to hear about it!  Just send
> > me a paragraph or so describing your project and explaining what
> > task(s) you could use help with --- something that I could put on the
> > course website for students to look at.
> >
> > Here are a few more details:
> >
> > * The students will be working on the projects from approximately the
> >   end of this month through the end of April.  During the next two
> >   weeks they would be contacting you to discuss the possibility of
> >   working on your project.
> >
> > * By "relative beginner" I mean someone familiar with the material
> >   listed here: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/lectures.html and just
> >   trying to come to terms with Applicative and Monad.  They definitely
> >   do not know much if anything about optimization/profiling, GADTs,
> >   the mtl, or Haskell-programming-in-the-large.  (Although part of the
> >   point of the project is to teach them a bit about
> >   programming-in-the-(medium/large)).
> >
> > * What I would hope from you is a willingness to exchange email and/or
> >   chat with the student(s) over the course of the project, to give
> >   them a bit of guidance/mentoring.  I am certainly willing to help on
> >   that front, but of course I probably don't know much about your
> >   particular project.
>
> Maybe it is a too small project (and not a contribution to an existing
> project), but a Haskell wrapper around PostgreSQL setproctitle code
> would be nice (something similar exists in the Python world).
>
> Otherwise I have began some "infrastructure" projects on GitHub that
> are all pretty simple but could be damn useful: curved is meant to be
> a drop-in-replacement for graphite (it is almost the case), sentry is
> a process-monitoring tool, humming is a job queue on top of
> PostgreSQL, hlinode is a binding to the Linode API, ... They all have
> in common that they are small, self-contained, and quite often just
> massaging around rawSystem calls, database "execute" calls, or
> GET/POST calls.
>
> Thu
>
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