[swift-users] Interested student

[Kevin Smith]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Gatlin Johnson <rokenrol at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm game then. I learnt C++ from Stroustrup's course at A&M and
> have dabbled with Qt for a few personal projects (including a dead
> attempt to wrap libpurple in a qt lib).
>
> Professionally I work in Python and PHP depending on client
> constraints, which may scare everyone but I really don't care about
> language wars and I'm not constrained by any particular idiom.
>
> School and work get in the way of my cooler aspirations so if I could
> merge work with a cooler aspiration then this would be much more
> efficient.
>
> What else would you like to know, and what do you need / want help with?

We should have a discussion about what the project involves, what the
likely stages would be, etc. - this will inform your eventual
application. I don't see much value in us seeing anything resumé-like
at the moment, as you can include anything pertinent in your
application, and I'd rather we got to know you as a dev at this stage.

It'd also be good to discuss the Swift design at a very high-level.

If you'd like to get stuck in with some coding pre-application (I
advise students that this is a good idea - it doesn't guarantee a
place, but demonstrating competence in advance can only help the cause
when it's time to vote on applications), I have a smallish task in
mind that goes through the various levels of the Swift/Swiften stack
and would be a great introduction (or some more trivial changes at a
single layer only).

/K