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Cognitive dimensions of notations

The topic Cognitive dimensions of notations desperately needs some more explanation for each of the cognitive dimensions listed. In particular, how are each of the dimensions measured? How does one measure levels of abstraction? closeness of notation to the problem world? ability to guess the rest of the notation? etc.

Vladimir G. Ivanovic 14:49, 19 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vgivanovic (talk • contribs)

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Package Repository & Development Process

What can people tell me about software package development processes and repositories?

I've come to value greatly the package development process for R (www.r-project.org). This involves simultaneous development of documentation and unit tests with code. I've looked for similar things with other languages without success. Part of the problem may be that I don't know the search terms to use. I have not looked extensively, but I have looked some, and I have yet to find anything comparable for other languages. The closest I've found is repositories similar to CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org), e.g, CPAN for Perl.

I plan to start a table to the "software repositories" article, listing CPAN for Perl and CRAN for R. Then I plan to contact others and invite them to add what they know.

I also think it would be appropriate to create a similar article with a title something like "software package development process" to describe co-development of code, unit tests and documentation. There are also some systems that compute statistics for percent coverage by unit tests that should be mentioned. However, I don't know enough about that.

DavidMCEddy (talk) 02:46, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notification regarding Wikipedia-Books

Hadronic Matter
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As detailed in last week's Signpost, WildBot has been patrolling Wikipedia-Books and searched for various problems in them, such as books having duplicate articles or containing redirects. WikiProject Wikipedia-Books is in the process of cleaning them up, but help would be appreciated. For this project, the following books have problems:

The problem reports explain in details what exactly are the problems, why they are problems, and how to fix them. This way anyone can fix them even if they aren't familiar with books. If you don't see something that looks like this, then all problems have been fixed. (Please strike articles from this list as the problems get fixed.)

Also, the {{saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of books (title, subtitle, cover-image, cover-color), and gives are preview of the default cover on the book's page. An example of such a cover is found on the right. Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class Computing articles should have covers.

If you need help with cleaning up a book, help with the {{saved book}} template, or have any questions about books in general, see Help:Books, Wikipedia:Books, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, or ask me on my talk page. Also feel free to join WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as we need all the help we can get.

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Organization of topics

In the beginning, the project states its scope. However, I couldn't see a consistent logic in organizing the topics. Computer programming is about developing software. Networking, server and database are both hardware and software. Operating system is a special type of software. The Internet is a special network. Besides, where should we put topics such as development and testing methodologies? I would like to suggest the following grouping:

  1. History and Science
    1. History of Computing Science
    2. Computing Algorithms
  2. Computer Components
    1. Hardware
    2. Software
    3. Firmwares
    4. Operating Systems
    5. Database
    6. Networks
  3. Software Development
    1. Software Architecture
    2. Development Methodologies, Techniques & Tools
  4. Software Quality
    1. Software Quality Models
    2. Quality Assurance Methodologies, Techniques & Tools
  5. Computing Standards

This basically groups the topics into 5 main sections, i.e. history and science, computer components, software development, software quality and computing standards.

  1. "History of Computing Science" should focus on the historical information of computing science.
  2. "Computing Algorithms" should focus on the scientific or technologies information related to computing. For example, sort and search algorithm, parallel programming, etc.
  3. "Hardware" should focus on information of computer equipments or related equipments. For example, mainframe, desktop computer, printer, storage devices and media, CPU, etc.
  4. "Software" should focus on information of software products or application, programming languages. For example, COBOL, FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, Perl, ETL, CRM, etc.
  5. "Firmwares" should focus on computer firmwares. For example, chipset, bios, etc.
  6. "Operating Systems" should focus on various type of operating system. For example, DOS, Windows XP, MacOS, Linux, Unix, Solaris, etc.
  7. "Database" should focus on information of database types and products. For example, network type, hierarchical type, relational type, Oracle, Access, etc.
  8. "Networks" should focus on information of computer networks. For example, networking topologies, intranet and Internet, etc.
  9. "Software Architecture" should focus on information of software architecture. For example, centralized, distributed, client server, web services, services oriented, etc.
  10. "Development Methodologies, Techniques & Tools" should focus on information of software development methodologies, techniques and tools. For example, waterfall, agile development, prototyping, integrated development environment (IDE), etc.
  11. "Software Quality Models" should focus on information of quality aspect and software quality models. For example, quality model in ISO standard 9126.
  12. "Quality Assurance Methodologies, Technologies & Tools" should focus on information of quality assurance methodologies, techniques and tools. For example, V and W Models, requirements and configuration management, Full Lifecycle Testing Methodology, etc.
  13. "Computing Standards" should focus on information of standards and frameworks. For example, ISO, CMM, ITIL, IEEE, etc.

Francis Law (talk) 21:13, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Missing computer topics

I've separated the list of missing computer subjects to their own page - Skysmith (talk) 11:41, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A link to a collection of tutorials and videos on R. Tutorials: http://www.dataminingtools.net/browsetutorials.php?tag=rdmt Videos: http://www.dataminingtools.net/videos.php?id=8 --Datauser10 (talk) 18:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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