Since nobody seems motivated to contribute to the Wikiversity School of
Computer Science ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity:School_of_Computer_Science; theory
of computation, not job-preparation programming) and since the courses there
aren't developed at all, I've decided to use Ruby as the base language (with
interludes into things like Lisp and Haskell to illustrate certain concepts
better) so that I can teach the concepts instead of the language pitfalls.
Who knows, though. Maybe the people who have currently been sleeping for a
month to a year will come back and force a switch to C++ or something (it is
a wiki). If, however, we can get a sizable amount of content written (lack
of content is probably the main cause of malaise there), and it's written
well, we might be able to stop the evils of C++ from spreading (just kidding
;).
I've begun my efforts in the Data Structures course ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Data_Structures). I hope to make it
fit in a page, yet give good, solid knowledge of simple data structures. Any
volunteers there or elsewhere would be appreciated.
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volunteers there or elsewhere would be appreciated.
Very cool. If I get a little time I'll try to contribute.
I hadn't heard of Wikiversity or Wikibooks before - good to know that
something like this is going on.