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

[Alp Mestanogullari]

Hi,

My suggestion may sound a bit odd, but if they're looking for a challenging
but still simple enough project, I'd love for people to test out the new
version of hnn (not yet released, but on github [1]) and make something fun
with it. I'd love to mentor this and add things to the library altogether
as they progress and give some feedback. The biggest issue with that
proposal is that they either have to know a bit about neural networks
before or must be able to learn very quickly. This can however be
compensated by that warm feeling you have when your neural net finally does
what you want it to.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Thanks!
> -Brent
>
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Alp Mestanogullari
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