From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-07-07T01:10:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Wikiversity and Ruby.

In article <6a9c61b105070523176ec7a87b@mail.gmail.com>,
C Erler  <erlercw@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Since nobody seems motivated to contribute to the Wikiversity School of=20
>Computer Science (
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity:School_of_Computer_Science; theory=
>=20
>of computation, not job-preparation programming) and since the courses ther=
>e=20
>aren't developed at all, I've decided to use Ruby as the base language (wit=
>h=20
>interludes into things like Lisp and Haskell to illustrate certain concepts=
>=20
>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=
>=20
>month to a year will come back and force a switch to C++ or something (it i=
>s=20
>a wiki). If, however, we can get a sizable amount of content written (lack=
>=20
>of content is probably the main cause of malaise there), and it's written=
>=20
>well, we might be able to stop the evils of C++ from spreading (just kiddin=
>g=20
>;).
>
>I've begun my efforts in the Data Structures course (
>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Data_Structures). I hope to make i=
>t=20
>fit in a page, yet give good, solid knowledge of simple data structures. An=
>y=20
>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.


Phil