Getting involved

Sat Jan 7 16:48:56 EST 2012

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> 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/

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>> Regards
>> Antoine.
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