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

[Craig Bradney]

Thanks for not cutting unnecessary info in your reply Greg ;)

Lol
Craig



On 30/03/2011, at 3:03 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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