Re: Need help for 'Improve logm, sqrtm, funm" project.

[Marco Caliari]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, NVS Abhilash wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am a 3rd year Computer Science student from India. I am really
> interested in the GSoC project about improving the logm, sqrtm and
> funm functions.
>
> I need help in the following:
>
> 1. Find resources to get started in Octave development.
> 2. I want to know how to hack around the real code and how to test it.
> 3. What is the whole process of submitting a patch in the octave repository.
> 4. How to use the mailing list to get my answers.
>
> My necessary skills are:
>
> 1. C, C++ - Intermediate level
> 2. Python - Beginner
> 3. Implementation and analysis of Algorithms
> 4. Octave / MATLAB - Beginner level
> 5. shell scripting: Beginner level
> 6. Linear algebra - Intermediate (Had a course in my second semester)
>
>
> Knowledge about subjects:
>
> I have a good knowledge about Mathematics, algebra. I have used octave
> for my Machine Learning course to implement different models. I have
> got good programming skills in C and C++. I had a course on Algorithms
> and also I am pursuing an online course specialisation on algorithms
> analysis and implementation.

Dear NVS Abhilash,

a previous student, Mudit Sharma, started to work on this project some 
months ago. You can find his work here:

https://github.com/RickOne16/matrix/

There is a short history of his work here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2016-02/msg00121.html

You could start by checking those codes, compare with expm.m, logm.m, and 
sqrtm.m in Octave and try to understand what is working, what not, and 
what can be improved.

Regards,

Marco