From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Jan 12 03:24:09 2002
Subject: undergraduate octave project ideas (fwd)
From: "Z. Frazier" <zfrazier at u dot washington dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:23:52 -0800 (PST)


* this is a repeat post, i dont think the first ever made it
* my apologies if anyone is reading this twice.

hello,

I am a senior at the University of Washington. I am a double major in Math
and the Numerical Algorithms track of our Computational Sciences
major. I am looking or a good project to work on over the next couple of
months, and was hoping i could also contribute to the development of
Octave.

Are there any suggestions for projects?  I am looking something that could
be completed in a few months of light/moderate work.  Something that is
covered in the undergraduate courses of numerical analysis(root finding,
matrix computations, optimization, etc...).

I have considered working on an LP solver, but it looks like it is pretty
much done, as far as the math goes.  I could work on Quadratic
Programming, however I have very limited experience with them.  At the
same time there are really no *free* QP libraries that could be integrated
into Octave( that i could find at least), so it seems like a reasonable
project.

Is there anything at this level that Octave is in need of?

Ideas?? Suggestions??

thank you for your help,

-zach

Zach Frazier
zfrazier at u dot washington dot edu





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