Project Ideas

[Orrin Jelo]

Hello folks,

My name is Tyler Park and I am a graduating senior in physics at Utah Valley
University, about to go into a PhD program at Brigham Young University
hoping to base my work in computational physics and condensed matter.  I've
worked with Scilab before utilizing its plotting capabilities to plot
three-dimensional histograms for my research in inhomogeneous broadening in
perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy (just nod your head 'yes').  My
minor is in computer science and I have about 8 years experience working
with C/C++.  I'm interested in participating in GSoC this year (this being
my first year) and contribute my time and effort to such a great project as
Scilab.

I realize it is somewhat late in the game (I mean, application time begins
on Monday), but I hope I can get things in order before then.  I've been
stewing over possibilities of projects from the idea list on the site and
here are a few that I think I can do:

-XML module: I've just recently worked with libxml2 and so this seems
conceptually easy to grasp.  I still have a lot to learn about it though.
-Network module: Importing (and possibly exporting) via a http or ftp
protocol.
-m2sci: Matlab to Scilab: I've worked quite a bit with Matlab, but I don't
know what needs to be improved upon here.
-Symbolic (Add the possibility to do symbolic computation in Scilab): From
what i understand, there's a module in progress for this, but I might decide
just to start from scratch again.  I have no idea really how to go about
doing this, nor any experience with Maxima, but I'd really like to see this
in use.
-Multiple consoles: I have no idea initially how I would do this (maybe
after digging around in the code I will figure it out) but it seems like a
nice idea.

Has anyone already staked claims on one of these projects, or mentors or
users have an opinion on which needs to be done first?

--T. Park
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