Kevin Halasz is an undergraduate student who has been working to add collections of permutation groups to Sage's collection as a funded summer research project. He has several patches now ready, one is from several weeks ago. I thought I would advertise them here, since classes start back up for Kevin on August 27 (and me too!). I have worked closely to help him organize these patches properly, and will work closely with him to answer any comments from reviewers. So potential reviewers should not fear having to provide extensive guidance on coding style or docstrings to a new contributor - I'll be doing that. Kevin also already has a (merged) one-character, but non-trivial, documentation patch to his credit.
The goal of Kevin's project has been to make the creation of any group of order 31 or less available as a permutation group with a simple, but natural, Sage command. I think this collection of patches will do that, but he may still need to go back and carefully check. Kevin would like to study group theory in graduate school, so it would be great to encourage him with some reviews of his work, if you are familiar with the "permgroups" code. Thanks, Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Dihedral Groups A construction of the semidirect product of C2 with any abelian group http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13251 Semidirect Product Totally general construction, wrapping GAP's command http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13365 Semidihedral Groups and Split Metacyclic Groups Families of 2-groups and p-groups http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13366 Holomorph of a Group The semidirect product of a group with its automorphism group (This is in-progress, but should be ready very soon.) http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13367 -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
