| 106 | | This project could be mentored by Niall Douglas (http://www.nedprod.com/), and possibly Dr. Hartmut Kaiser (https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~hkaiser/). Due to limits on free time especially as I am also Boost GSoC admin this year, I (Niall) would only be able to mentor one student this summer, and I generally provide a programming test based on AFIO to students whose have submitted proposals to ensure that their coding ability is minimally sufficient to be able to attempt a GSoC. Benefits for the student of a successful GSoC in this area are many: high performance async programming experience is very desirable in the marketplace right now, and getting your name attached to authorship of a Boost library is a shining bright light on a resume which will stand to your career for years to come. You will gain bleeding edge experience programming exclusively in C++11 across the main toolsets of Visual Studio, GCC and clang AND writing portable code for the main operating system platforms of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD/OS X - again, all very desirable skills to have in the marketplace. For those of you looking at a career in computer science research, and depending on the success of your outcomes, you may even be able to pass peer review to present your work at the C++ Now conference held annually in May. Good luck with your GSoC applications! |
| | 106 | This project could be mentored by Niall Douglas (http://www.nedprod.com/), and possibly Hartmut Kaiser (https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~hkaiser/). Due to limits on free time especially as I am also Boost GSoC admin this year, I (Niall) would only be able to mentor one student this summer, and I generally provide a programming test based on AFIO to students whose have submitted proposals to ensure that their coding ability is minimally sufficient to be able to attempt a GSoC. Benefits for the student of a successful GSoC in this area are many: high performance async programming experience is very desirable in the marketplace right now, and getting your name attached to authorship of a Boost library is a shining bright light on a resume which will stand to your career for years to come. You will gain bleeding edge experience programming exclusively in C++11 across the main toolsets of Visual Studio, GCC and clang AND writing portable code for the main operating system platforms of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD/OS X - again, all very desirable skills to have in the marketplace. For those of you looking at a career in computer science research, and depending on the success of your outcomes, you may even be able to pass peer review to present your work at the C++ Now conference held annually in May. Good luck with your GSoC applications! |
