Re: mentorship

[Keith OHara]

Kevin Barry <barrykp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for responding. I would like to be able to contribute code to the
> project but I'm not really a programmer (I'm a music academic). I worked
> through some chapters of SICP in the past, so I have a rudimentary
> understanding of ... the first few chapters of SICP. I would like to learn
> more, if that's something that would help. Otherwise I will help any way
> that might be needed. I don't have any specific goals other than
> contributing somehow and maybe learning more about programming along the
> way.

https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=703
is an interesting case.  Eight people 'starred' it to indicate interest.

The tricky bit is figuring out how we might make LilyPond easier to use
for a variety of instruments.  The relevant code is in Scheme, which I
is the language used in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"