FOSSEE, IIT Bombay is hosting an online Scilab Toolbox Hackathon to develop Scilab Toolboxes. So get started and utilize your lockdown time to participate in this hackathon and improve your coding skills.
It is possible that many of your courses will become online next semester. Switching over to open source software will help you conduct these courses effectively. For details click here.
Scilab Toolbox Hackathon is an online, nonstop "Scilab Toolbox Development" based on an ALREADY AVAILABLE and ESTABLISHED open source software, a competition initiated by the FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. It aims at inspiring minds across the globe to build outstanding toolboxes for Scilab. To know more about the Scilab toolbox hackathon, please click here.
If you are a good software developer (C, Python, R, etc,.) and know how to interface multiple software, you can quickly learn Scilab toolbox development, participate, and register using the Google form.
Team size and CompositionThere are thousands of open source software available for numerical computation, to solve nonlinear equations, to integrate differential equations through finite difference and finite elements, for data visualisation, for statistical calculation, etc. There are also open source solutions to establish debuggers/ profilers. To find the partial list of software, click here. The objective of this Hackathon is to bring such software as toolboxes to Scilab users. This will enhance the functionality of Scilab. Once such software is available as a Scilab Toolbox, anyone who knows Scilab should be able to access it easily. An example of building such a toolbox is given for C/C++ here. A similar example for Python is available here: (1) Python Toolbox Creation (2) Python Toolbox Installation and Use and (3) Scilab-Python-Toolbox. For more details on this, please see the webinar recording available here.
To summarise, select the open source software, interface it with Scilab, validate it with two or more examples and submit. All submissions will be released under GPL.
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