Hi Richard,
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Richard Eisenberg
I'm teaching an introductory Haskell course this semester (http://cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall14/) and am about to assign students their final project. Is there anyone out there who would welcome getting some novice help on an open-source project? You certainly don't need to commit to accept their patch(es), but I know it would be a great experience for some of the students to contribute to the "real" world of Haskell, instead of just doing exercises. You can get an accurate summary of what we've covered by looking at the lecture titles at http://cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall14/lectures.html
Students will be choosing projects starting next week, and will need to have them completed by Dec. 15 or so. A good project is about 20 hours of work.
Hope I'm not too late to chime in! I maintain a GUI testing package called Robot [1]. It's a simple library with clear semantics which seems quite suitable for your students. Some project ideas, from easiest to hardest: * Taking screenshots. XHB exposes a GetImage call [2]; it shouldn't be too much work integrating that into the library. * Adding a configurable delay between operations. This involves some work with monads (ReaderT specifically). * Windows and Mac support. Some good practice with Cabal and the FFI here. * xdotool [3] does a few things, like searching for windows by title, that I'd like to see in Robot. Porting some of these features over sounds like a good (albeit open-ended) project. Hope this helps. Chris [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/robot [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xhb-0.5.2014.4.10/docs/Graphics-XHB-Gen-X... [3] http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/