Personal Introduction (Alec Korotney)
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Alec Korotney
Oct 30, 2020, 3:50:27 AM10/30/20
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To whom it may concern:
My name is Alec Korotney. I am currently an undergraduate at University of Michigan majoring in mathematics and computer science. I apologize if this is not the right place to post my personal introduction, and if not, by all means please let me know where I can send it instead.
I am in a software engineering class whose final project is to contribute to an open-source Github project, and I am interested in contributing to Sympy. I've cloned the repository and run the program and have also done my best to read up on the different functionalities of Sympy. I am interested to start searching for issues to work on, and any guidance would be immensely appreciated.
To go over some information suggested in the "introduce yourself" guidelines, I am more familiar with C++ than with Python; regardless, I still have reasonable familiarity with Python and have used it from time to time in the past year. I am in my third year of majoring in mathematics and am currently in an Introduction to Mathematical Logic course as well as Honors Algebra, and thus I would most likely call mathematics my "particular expertise." I am most interested in dynamic programming and graph algorithms, especially problems such as the Travelling Salesman problem or variations of the Knapsack problem. Though I have not used Sympy before, I am quite familiar with LaTeX symbolic notation for mathematical symbols as I have used it on most of my homework assignments for the past year (and have used it to write group papers in a mathematical research class).
I hope that I am able to join the Sympy community and start contributing to my first ever Github project. Thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely,
Alec Korotney
Aaron Meurer
Oct 30, 2020, 4:17:03 PM10/30/20
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Hi.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:50 AM Alec Korotney <ako...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern:
> My name is Alec Korotney. I am currently an undergraduate at University of Michigan majoring in mathematics and computer science. I apologize if this is not the right place to post my personal introduction, and if not, by all means please let me know where I can send it instead.
Yes, this is the right place to introduce yourself.
>
> I am in a software engineering class whose final project is to contribute to an open-source Github project, and I am interested in contributing to Sympy. I've cloned the repository and run the program and have also done my best to read up on the different functionalities of Sympy. I am interested to start searching for issues to work on, and any guidance would be immensely appreciated.
How significant does the contribution need to be? We have issues
labeled "easy to fix" which are good issues to start with.
>
> To go over some information suggested in the "introduce yourself" guidelines, I am more familiar with C++ than with Python; regardless, I still have reasonable familiarity with Python and have used it from time to time in the past year. I am in my third year of majoring in mathematics and am currently in an Introduction to Mathematical Logic course as well as Honors Algebra, and thus I would most likely call mathematics my "particular expertise." I am most interested in dynamic programming and graph algorithms, especially problems such as the Travelling Salesman problem or variations of the Knapsack problem. Though I have not used Sympy before, I am quite familiar with LaTeX symbolic notation for mathematical symbols as I have used it on most of my homework assignments for the past year (and have used it to write group papers in a mathematical research class).
SymPy covers a lot of mathematics, including a lot that you probably
haven't learned yet. I would suggest looking at the parts of SymPy
that relate to things you have learned recently and enjoyed.
Aaron Meurer
>
> I hope that I am able to join the Sympy community and start contributing to my first ever Github project. Thank you so much for your time.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alec Korotney
> ako...@umich.edu
>
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:50 AM Alec Korotney <ako...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern:
> My name is Alec Korotney. I am currently an undergraduate at University of Michigan majoring in mathematics and computer science. I apologize if this is not the right place to post my personal introduction, and if not, by all means please let me know where I can send it instead.
>
> I am in a software engineering class whose final project is to contribute to an open-source Github project, and I am interested in contributing to Sympy. I've cloned the repository and run the program and have also done my best to read up on the different functionalities of Sympy. I am interested to start searching for issues to work on, and any guidance would be immensely appreciated.
labeled "easy to fix" which are good issues to start with.
>
> To go over some information suggested in the "introduce yourself" guidelines, I am more familiar with C++ than with Python; regardless, I still have reasonable familiarity with Python and have used it from time to time in the past year. I am in my third year of majoring in mathematics and am currently in an Introduction to Mathematical Logic course as well as Honors Algebra, and thus I would most likely call mathematics my "particular expertise." I am most interested in dynamic programming and graph algorithms, especially problems such as the Travelling Salesman problem or variations of the Knapsack problem. Though I have not used Sympy before, I am quite familiar with LaTeX symbolic notation for mathematical symbols as I have used it on most of my homework assignments for the past year (and have used it to write group papers in a mathematical research class).
haven't learned yet. I would suggest looking at the parts of SymPy
that relate to things you have learned recently and enjoyed.
Aaron Meurer
>
> I hope that I am able to join the Sympy community and start contributing to my first ever Github project. Thank you so much for your time.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alec Korotney
> ako...@umich.edu
>
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Alec Korotney
Oct 30, 2020, 8:11:49 PM10/30/20
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The project requires me to work on either "one large issue" or "several smaller issues," and I am most likely leaning toward the latter. Thank you for the response, I've been reading more about Sympy and I'm definitely thinking this is the project I want to contribute to for my class :)
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