Re: Getting involved

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Hello,

Sophie Sperner <sophie.sperner <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Let me ask here please. I'm a first-year PhD student in Ireland. My
> background is in mathematics, though I'm going to stream my career
> into programming with Python, Java and C++ languages. I have some good
> experience with C++ what allowed me to have a presentation in Europe
> quite recently - I participated in an open-source cloud computing
> project. I used Python a little bit in that project, though mainly it
> was in C++.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Could you please list me 2 or 3 projects in Python and/or Java which
> are currently active (vivid) and useful?

CPython itself - the reference and most used implementation - is written partly
in Python (most of the stdlib is) and partly in C. It is easy to find things to
do even without touching C. You could take a look:
http://docs.python.org/devguide/

Regards

Antoine.

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Getting involved Sophie Sperner <sophie.sperner@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 02:59 -0800
  Re: Getting involved Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 22:13 +1100
    Re: Getting involved Sophie Sperner <sophie.sperner@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 03:17 -0800
      Re: Getting involved Sophie Sperner <sophie.sperner@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 03:36 -0800
    Re: Getting involved moijes12 <moijes12@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 23:52 -0800
  Re: Getting involved Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 05:16 -0600
  Re: Getting involved Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-01-07 12:53 +0100
    Re: Getting involved Sophie Sperner <sophie.sperner@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 04:01 -0800
      Re: Getting involved - Jython ElementTree performance Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-01-07 15:40 +0100
  Re: Getting involved Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2012-01-07 20:39 +0000
  Re: Getting involved Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 14:48 -0700

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