Re: Summer of Code projects

2013-04-15 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi Tobia, On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Tobia Tesan wrote: > I assume I could be able to fill the gaps between "real world Java" > and "college C++" with some help from manuals and tutorials before > starting. > > Wishful thinking? Sure, don't worry about that too much. > Right, t

Re: Summer of Code projects

2013-04-15 Thread Tobia Tesan
Il 15/04/2013 9.03, Michael Meeks ha scritto: It's fine; FWIW - if you like a really well separated task (and some friendly mentors), I'd recommend the file format tasks that Fridrich & Valek are mentoring - they should be fun, and often seem to result in a small / separate library. So the Macrom

Re: Summer of Code projects

2013-04-15 Thread Tobia Tesan
Hi Miklos, thank you for taking time to reply. Il 15/04/2013 10.20, Miklos Vajna ha scritto: The big, fat disclaimer: I have real world programming experience with small and medium projects and I'm a reasonably good student (my grades are around 95/100 - or, roughly, I'm in the top 5%) Was an

Re: Summer of Code projects

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tobia, On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 00:16 +0200, Tobia Tesan wrote: > I was thinking of applying for Summer Of Code this year and I'm having a > look at a number of participating projects. Great news; it sounds like you have a great set of suitable skills, and it'd be good to hack with you t

Re: Summer of Code projects

2013-04-15 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi Tobia, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:16:13AM +0200, Tobia Tesan wrote: > The big, fat disclaimer: I have real world programming experience > with small and medium projects and I'm a reasonably good student (my > grades are around 95/100 - or, roughly, I'm in the top 5%), but I > have never hacke