111
edits
Summer of Code - Getting Started: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Summer of Code - Getting Started (view source)
Revision as of 21:47, 19 February 2015
, 19 February 2015Add a symbolic pkg project
Carandraug (talk | contribs) (→Finish the Octave GUI: remove project since GUI is already being worked on actively and ready for release) |
(Add a symbolic pkg project) |
||
| Line 185: | Line 185: | ||
'''Mentor''': [[User:KaKiLa]] | '''Mentor''': [[User:KaKiLa]] | ||
=== Symbolic package === | |||
Octave's [https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy Symbolic package] handles symbolic computing and other CAS tools. The main component of Symbolic is a pure m-file class "@sym" which uses the Python package [https://www.sympy.org SymPy] to do (most of) the actual computations. The package aims to expose the full functionality of SymPy while also providing a high-level of compatibility with the Matlab Symbolic Math Toolbox. Currently, communication between Octave and Python is handled with a pipe (see "help popen2") and parsing text. However, this is fragile when things go wrong: for example, catching exceptions from Python is a bit ad hoc. | |||
The main aim of this proposed project is to implement (or even better co-opt an existing) C/C++ oct-file interface that interacts with Python as a library, and e.g., deals gracefully with exceptions. This could either supplement the existing IPC or replace it altogether. | |||
'''Required skills''': m-file scripting, C/C++, and Python | |||
'''Difficulty''': easy/medium | |||
'''Mentor''': Colin B. Macdonald | |||
=== High Precision Arithmetic Computation === | === High Precision Arithmetic Computation === | ||