Not something very big, but if someone wants to get hands on working with Parsec I started developing a library to work with motion capture (MoCap) data. I need to parse MoCap data for my bachelor's thesis [1] so I decided to do it in a way that might benefit others. On the other hand, I don't need all the info in the file for my work and this project is not my priority, so one of the students could extend the parser to parse the sections of the file it currently ignores. Also more file types support would be nice since I am only developing a parser for ASF/AMC files. The project is very new, small and is located here: https://github.com/netogallo/MoCap . I can give you more details of the tasks that could be done (essentially creating a parser fore more sections of the file, define ADTs to represent those sections, semantic validation of files, better error messages, ect.) and I would be willing to exchange e-mails and answer questions to students if necessary.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey@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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