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reply ParticlePeter <ParticlePeter gmx.de> writes:
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
Oct 19 2015
next sibling parent reply Mengu <mengukagan gmail.com> writes:
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.
Oct 19 2015
parent ParticlePeter <ParticlePeter gmx.de> writes:
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!
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
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/
Oct 19 2015
parent ParticlePeter <ParticlePeter gmx.de> writes:
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 :-)
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
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.
Oct 19 2015
parent ParticlePeter <ParticlePeter gmx.de> writes:
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 :-)
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
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
Oct 19 2015
parent ParticlePeter <ParticlePeter gmx.de> writes:
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.
Oct 20 2015