Hi Brent,
Would scoutess [1] fit there? There still are *many* things to do in
scoutess, and these things can be split up in pretty simple tasks. And when
you say 4 weeks, you mean aside from the other courses they have I guess?
[1] http://patch-tag.com/r/alpmestan/scoutess/wiki/
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Brent Yorgey
Hi everyone,
I am currently teaching a half-credit introductory Haskell class for undergraduates. This is the second time I've taught it. The last time, for their final project I gave them the option of contributing to an open-source project; a couple groups 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!
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.
* 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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