[scribus-dev] Some small good news regarding tables GSoC

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/30/2011 04:24 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> I have some small good news.
>
> This first year at my uni we've been having an introductory
> programming/computer science course where they've been teaching us
> basic OOP (and some simple algorithms) using Java. For my part, the
> course has mostly been mundane excercises as I have some programming
> background already and the exercises have been more of a chore than a
> challenge. But to finish the course off, we're supposed to do a small
> (few weeks) project on a subject of our choice.
>
> I just got word yesterday that my teaching assistant will let me do my
> project on table layout. It's kind of an awkward choice since the
> project is supposed to be a finished program with a GUI, so I wasn't
> sure she'd let me. Especially not since we're supposed to do the
> project in pairs. But she will let me do the project on my own.
>
> What this means is that I will have some in-school time to experiment
> with table layout in Java, and maybe learn a thing or two that I can
> bring with me into a possible future GSoC project this summer.
>
> The project is of limited scope, only a few weeks (3-4 i think). And
> of course it includes a lot of formal stuff in addition to the actual
> coding. But I still consider it good news.
>
> Just thought I'd let you guys know.

Superb! This actually very much fits in with what we'd like to see -- 
students not waiting until GSoC begins to start to feel their way around 
their own project.

Greg