Wes Galbraith (Introduction)

[Wes Galbraith]

Hi Sympy Community,

I am a Python developer working for Pearson Education in Centennial CO. We are working on a calculus tutoring app that uses Sympy to help assess the correctness of students' solutions to their homework problems. I would like to contribute to the project to give back to the open-source community and improve my understanding of the library.

Here is a quick summary of my experience and education. I have been a professional software developer for about a year and three months. Before that, I completed an MS in math at Colorado State University. My thesis was on the use of spectral methods to solve PDEs applied to ion bombardment experiments. My implementations were in Python and used the numpy and scipy libraries. I took three graduate algebra courses as part of my coursework, which included studying Groebner bases. Most of my experience in computer algebra is from using Sympy at Pearson. I've primarily used tools from the Polys module to try and determine when Calc I limit problems can be solved by factoring or by conjugate radicals, and worked on a utility library to determine the domain of a univariate real-valued function that makes use of Sympy's continuous_domain function and handles edge cases.

Looking forward to getting involved with the project.

Sincerely,

Wes Galbraith

[Ben]

Hello Wes,

In your calculus tutoring app, how do users input the expressions? Using a set of buttons in a GUI, using Latex, or some other mathematical markdown? 

My motive for asking is to understand the process you're using for parsing input expressions. 

[Oscar Benjamin]

Hi Wes,

That sounds like an excellent background for contributing to sympy. Is
there any particular part of sympy that you would like to work on?

Oscar

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