[Swift-devel] Hi all,

[Michael Wilde]

Chaturanga, 


The only help we can offer to new or potential Swift users is help on specific problems or questions you have on using Swift. 


If you send to the swift-user list specific Swift code that you have tried, and any errors Swift is giving you, list members will try to help as time permits. As with any user list, we can not guarantee you an answer in the time you need it. 


Regarding Swift logging, you will need to understand how to use Java log4j to use Swift logging. Once you understand that, then logging can be controlled by settings in the property files in the Swift etc/ directory. 


I am sorry, but I will not be able to answer any further questions unless they are specific enough and show that you have read the Swift documentation carefully, completely executed the tutorial examples, and have made an effort to debug any problems that occur - just as you would have to to learn any other new computer language. That takes a lot of work, and we can not do this work for you. 


You need to work with your professor or teaching assistants to get guidance on how to complete your class project. 


- Mike 
----- Original Message -----


Sir, 

Thank you. 
I'm doing this for class credit. I asked it, they said OK. 

>You should try to use them in a few programs of your own, to verify your understanding of how they work. And build swift with extra >logging turned on (or added) to trace mapper activity. 

I tried with my own programs. 
What did you mean ' build swift with extra logging turned on (or added) to trace mapper activity' ? 
Is it the same thing that's mentioned in the tutorial under 'writing a mapper' ? (I did them and worked.) 

Do I have some specific things to do with mappers ? 

Chaturanga 




On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Michael Wilde < wilde at mcs.anl.gov > wrote: 





----- Original Message ----- 
> Michael, 
> 
> I was involving some exam stuffs in last few weeks at university. So, 
> was unable to spend more time with Swift. Hopefully now I can spend my 
> whole time with Swift. 
> I did the tutorial and read the user guide. It was interesting but had 
> some problems while doing. 


Can you report these to the swift-user list, please, so we can try to fix them? 

> 
> I'm interested to do the project 'Re-work the mapper naming 
> conventions to make code more readable and less verbose, and to fix 
> some broken mapper semantics' as you had mentioned earlier. 

OK. That may be a pretty difficult project, but it could perhaps be done incrementally, one small improvement at a time. 

What is your goal in this project? Are you doing it for class credit (in which case your professor should give you some guidance as to whether it is a good idea), or for learning more programming skills? 


> I looked at Mappers from the tutorial and user guide and was able to 
> understand them. 

You should try to use them in a few programs of your own, to verify your understanding of how they work. And build swift with extra logging turned on (or added) to trace mapper activity. 


> Can't we implement arrays in a similar manner described in tutorial 
> for the mappers or does it has another way? I mean by using an 
> Abstract class from java. 

Can you clarify what you mean? Java is not visible from Swift - its below the Karajan implementation. 

And its not clear what you mean by "cant we implement arrays..." 

The purpose of this particular project is to implement better mappers, not arrays, right? 

- Mike 


> 
> Sir, I'm pretty new to these things. 
> 
> If you can share some suggestions it will be very much helpful to me. 
> 
> Thank You. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Chaturanga Wimalarathne < 
> chaturanganamal at gmail.com > wrote: 
> 
> 
> Michael, 
> 
> This is really helpful. I have already prepared much for this project 
> regarding SWIFT. I downloaded swift tutorial and user guide. I'll go 
> through those and will choose a suitable project. I also downloaded 
> the source code through Subversion. I was almost going to change the 
> project. Thank you for the suggestions. I will definitely choose one 
> project from this list and Let you know ASAP. And I am sure I can 
> count on your continued assistance. Thanks Again. 
> 
> Chaturanga 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chaturanga Namal 
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering <Undergraduate> 
> University of Moratuwa 
> Sri Lanka 




-- 
Michael Wilde 
Computation Institute, University of Chicago 
Mathematics and Computer Science Division 
Argonne National Laboratory 




-- 
Chaturanga Namal 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering <Undergraduate> 
University of Moratuwa 
Sri Lanka 




-- 
Michael Wilde 
Computation Institute, University of Chicago 
Mathematics and Computer Science Division 
Argonne National Laboratory 

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