[Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

Michael Orlitzky michael at orlitzky.com
Tue Mar 12 03:52:12 CET 2013


On 03/11/2013 11:48 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> 
> So I'd like to do it again this time around, and am looking for
> particular projects I can suggest to them.  Do you have an open-source
> project with a few well-specified tasks that a relative beginner (see
> below) could reasonably make a contribution towards in the space of
> about four weeks? I'm aware that most tasks don't fit that profile,
> but even complex projects usually have a few "simple-ish" tasks that
> haven't yet been done just because "no one has gotten around to it
> yet".

It's not exciting, but adding doctest suites with examples to existing
packages would be a great help.

  * Good return on investment.

  * Not too hard.

  * The project is complete when you stop typing.




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