Hello Community,

I am a master student of Computational Visualistics / Computer Science shortly before starting my master thesis. This means I could (and also would love to) spend about five month exclusively working on and writing about a D project.
Unfortunately no professor at my university (OvGU in Magdeburg, Germany) can be found who is aware of dlang and would agree to supervise such a project.

This led to an interesting idea:
According to the European Credit Transfers System (ECTS) I have earned 270 CPs (30 per semester) as requirement for the master thesis, which is worth 30 additional CPs. Also according to ECTS it should be possible to transfer this amount of CPs to another University (with a ten semester bachelor and master system) and write the master thesis independently from the university where those credits were earned.

Last ingredient I would need for such a plan is an academic primary adviser.

My personal interest is the combination of cs and art, in particular I would like to write about and create a creative coding library similar to the auroragraphics announcement, processing, cinder or openFrameworks. I feel that D with its easy to read syntax and expressiveness is predestined to produce creative art and that dlang should have a modern, efficient and user-friendly art framework.

If supervising such a thesis is an interesting, feasible and legal (university vise) option, please step up.

Some more words in general. I don't know how many of you are in the lucky position to code on interesting D projects for a living but I guess that most contribute as hobbyists in their spare time. I also imagine that there are several students, like me, interested in contributing full-time (for a certain period) to the D ecosystem. If there are Academics interested in supervising such projects it might be worth to put up suggestions and request in the wiki similar to the new job openings.

Cheers, ParticlePeter

On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 19:20:15 UTC, ParticlePeter wrote:
> Hello Community,
>
> I am a master student of Computational Visualistics / Computer Science shortly before starting my master thesis. This means I could (and also would love to) spend about five month exclusively working on and writing about a D project.
> Unfortunately no professor at my university (OvGU in Magdeburg, Germany) can be found who is aware of dlang and would agree to supervise such a project.
>
> [...]

hi

in the meanwhile gsoc ist hier und wir haben einige interessante Projekte. (my tarzan german)

see http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas. Craig Dillabaugh will put up 2016 ideas soon.

On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 19:20:15 UTC, ParticlePeter wrote:
> I am a master student of Computational Visualistics / Computer Science shortly before starting my master thesis.

> My personal interest is the combination of cs and art, in particular I would like to write about and create a creative coding library similar to the auroragraphics announcement, processing, cinder or openFrameworks. I feel that D with its easy to read syntax and expressiveness is predestined to produce creative art and that dlang should have a modern, efficient and user-friendly art framework.

Supervisors like thesis work which fits into their ongoing research projects. Maybe you can find someone who has a long-term C/C++ project and building onto that with D is interesting?

I'm professionally not a good fit, since we [0] work on compilers not visualization. Personally, I'm not a good fit, because I hope to be gone in five months.

[0] http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/

2015-10-19 21:20 GMT+02:00 ParticlePeter via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>:

> Hello Community,
>
> If supervising such a thesis is an interesting, feasible and legal (university vise) option, please step up.
>

If you're in Magdeburg, and my German geography is not way off, you're about 2 hours away from Berlin, where we hold a meetup for D enthusiasts every 3rd friday of the month (http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/). Also, I think one of the regular attendee works at an university (though I'm not 100% sure). I'll see if I can get in touch with him.

On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 19:50:40 UTC, Mengu wrote:

> hi
>
> in the meanwhile gsoc ist hier und wir haben einige interessante Projekte. (my tarzan german)

Even though I am not aware of the tarzan dialect I do understand it perfectly :-)

> see http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas. Craig Dillabaugh will put up 2016 ideas soon.

I wasn't aware of that wiki entry but I looked up GSoC before my request. These are cool opportunities, however, I would say that my request is less demanding financially (no stipend required) and supervision (don't expect much supervision, leave it up to the adviser) vise. Thanks!

On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 21:47:33 UTC, qznc wrote:

> Supervisors like thesis work which fits into their ongoing research projects. Maybe you can find someone who has a long-term C/C++ project and building onto that with D is interesting?

I agree and that is the problem. Its kind of tough to mix  personal interests with faculty interests if they are nonconforming. To be honest I would not expect a long term C/C++ project to accept a D contribution if the supervisors are not aware of D as they will and should be worried about the maintainability? Anyway thanks.

> I'm professionally not a good fit, since we [0] work on compilers not visualization. Personally, I'm not a good fit, because I hope to be gone in five months.
>
> [0] http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/

Best of luck for your hopes :-)

On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 23:36:19 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote:

> If you're in Magdeburg, and my German geography is not way off, you're about 2 hours away from Berlin, where we hold a meetup for D enthusiasts every 3rd friday of the month (http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/). Also, I think one of the regular attendee works at an university (though I'm not 100% sure). I'll see if I can get in touch with him.

That would be great, thanks a lot, please feel free to send me a pm if something comes up. Your geography is right and I am following the Berlin meetups since its first announcement, always wanted to participate, never managed. I hope I can attend DConf 2016, maybe even present some results of my thesis :-)

On 10/19/2015 12:20 PM, ParticlePeter wrote:

> Last ingredient I would need for such a plan is an academic primary
> adviser.

Two names come to mind:

- Chuck Allison uses D when teaching functional programming at Utah Valley University:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymoIx3klQ6M

- Carl Sturtivant taught D during a summer course:

  http://forum.dlang.org/post/yutwxozxoqrfalzfswht@forum.dlang.org

Ali

On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 06:52:18 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Two names come to mind:
>
> - Chuck Allison uses D when teaching functional programming at Utah Valley University:
>
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymoIx3klQ6M
>
> - Carl Sturtivant taught D during a summer course:
>
>   http://forum.dlang.org/post/yutwxozxoqrfalzfswht@forum.dlang.org
>
> Ali

Thanks Ali, I will contact them.