Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!

We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.

Spread the word!

https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>
> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>
> Spread the word!
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8yram3/symmetry_autumn_of_code/

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>
> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>
> Spread the word!
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/

Great! Wish I was a student still : D.

Typos
 "D programming lagnauge" (looks a bit french) : D
 "accept yor offer."

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>
> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>
> Spread the word!
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/

"join us" for
"submit an application" -> apply (confusing otherwise)

Maybe sum up and make clear that each student can earn between $3000-4000, instead of capped at $1k.

Why limit it to students? If the goal is to have a youth injection, just use an age limit- say 18-25- I see no reason for the stupid college bias.

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 07:30:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>>
>> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>>
>> Spread the word!
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/
>
> "join us" for
> "submit an application" -> apply (confusing otherwise)
>
> Maybe sum up and make clear that each student can earn between $3000-4000, instead of capped at $1k.
>
> Why limit it to students? If the goal is to have a youth injection, just use an age limit- say 18-25- I see no reason for the stupid college bias.

Hi Joakim.

Thanks for suggestions.

I don't know what legal aspects there are relating to targeting age in different countries.  We are definitely targeting people earlier in their careers.  I agree with you that talent isn't only found amongst students, and I've in the past hired someone that didn't even finish high school and has gone on to do good work for the D community.  So as far as Symmetry goes we are very open to unusual talent.  A degree is just one piece of interesting information.

https://symmetryinvestments.com/careers/

There's quite a lot of work involved in organising something like this, and I'm very grateful to the D Foundation for doing such an excellent job.

We can refine this for next year, but I wanted to make a start.


Laeeth

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 07:09:21 UTC, Timoses wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>>
>> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>>
>> Spread the word!
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/
>
>
> Typos
>  "D programming lagnauge" (looks a bit french) : D
>  "accept yor offer."

Thanks for corrections.

> Great! Wish I was a student still : D.

Me too !  Kidding aside, if you would be interested in a job programming mostly or partly in D please see our website.  Lots of roles we haven't yet had time to post.

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 13:57:12 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 07:30:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>>>
>>> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>>>
>>> Spread the word!
>>>
>>> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/
>>
>> "join us" for
>> "submit an application" -> apply (confusing otherwise)
>>
>> Maybe sum up and make clear that each student can earn between $3000-4000, instead of capped at $1k.
>>
>> Why limit it to students? If the goal is to have a youth injection, just use an age limit- say 18-25- I see no reason for the stupid college bias.
>
> Hi Joakim.
>
> Thanks for suggestions.

Sure, thanks for funding this worthwhile initiative.

> I don't know what legal aspects there are relating to targeting age in different countries.  We are definitely targeting people earlier in their careers.  I agree with you that talent isn't only found amongst students, and I've in the past hired someone that didn't even finish high school and has gone on to do good work for the D community.  So as far as Symmetry goes we are very open to unusual talent.  A degree is just one piece of interesting information.

Yes, but the current requirements exclude, for example, recent college grads who may not be employed yet and might do much better work than a harried college student. I don't know the legal risks in detail, but I can't imagine the risk/reward to opening it up would favor the current limitation.

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>
> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>
> Spread the word!
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/

I wish I could participate but even though I am 18 years old, I am studying at the secondary school. I hope something similar gets arranged next year.

Good luck to all of the participants!

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 06:02:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code!
>
> We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student projects. Head to the Symmetry Autumn of Code page for the details.
>
> Spread the word!
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/

I'd suggest adding the following to SAOC 2018 project proposals :

1/ adding a Go-like http module to the standard library
2/ adding Go-like async IO management to the standard library, i.e. fibers communicating through blocking channels
3/ possibility to use automatic reference counting (with weak references) instead of garbage collection for automatic unused memory deallocation
4/ adding automatic cycle detection and collection to the automatic reference counting system

(https://wiki.dlang.org/SAOC_2018_ideas)

Thanks :)

On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 17:36:12 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>
> I'd suggest adding the following to SAOC 2018 project proposals :
> [snip]


Things on my wishlist:
Improved REPL support (esp Windows)
Jupyter kernel for D (someone might be working on this)
Very smooth integration between mir-ndslice and the most common data science languages: Julia, Numpy, R, Matlab/Octave (might need way to call Matlab/Octave?). Some already exists, but clear/good documentation or tutorials would be good contribution in those cases.
mir project for pandas-like dataframes
mir project for regression, built on mir-lapack/lubeck