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Project: Computer Programming
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 18, 2001
I really wish we could delete incorrect postings.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Jun 18, 2001
I bet I'll put it on h2g2 this saturday for input from you guys/girls.
I'll also catch up with what is going on in other projrct entries.
Dancer
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Researcher PSG Posted Jun 18, 2001
Great, I'll look forward to reading it.
Researcher PSG
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Researcher PSG Posted Jun 20, 2001
How are you getting on Amy?
Researcher PSG
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 20, 2001
over weekend but making some progress. Should publish drafts tomorrow.
Project: Computer Programming
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 20, 2001
Sorry you where there is nothing worse than being ill at a weekend.
I look forward to reading the drafts.
Researcher PSG
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 20, 2001
Maybe the day after tomorrow. I went out to dinner instead.
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A Perfectly Normal Beast Posted Jun 21, 2001
Hello everybody, and welcome Dancer
As you've noticed, I have been gone for a while, and I'm afraid I don't have much time these days. I took a quick glance at my two entries and cross linked them where I thought was required. If you think there are more places that need to be links, let me know.
I'm sorry I don't have the time to go over your entries too. I'll be home 'till Saturday and then I'll be gone for another couple of weeks.
A Perfectly Abnormal Guy
Project: Computer Programming
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 22, 2001
Hello!
Ab Guy don't worry about it, you have done loads already, see you later.
Amy, hows it coming? I could do with those needed corrections in the next couple of days, sorry to be a hassle.
Anyone need any help or have any comments or additions, just post here as normal.
Researcher PSG
We need more time
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 23, 2001
We need more time. This is partly my fault because I got tied up doing other stuff (i.e., w*rk) but the project is not going to be finished by Monday. I intend to work all morning on this project today. I will post my bits on Human-Centric Computing including Visual Programming Languages and Children's Programming Languages later on today. I also have some comments to make on the content of the pages PSG and Ab Guy have already published. I have started a separate thread for content-related comments here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F65718?thread=123438&skip=0&show=20 I think it would be helpful to keep the talk related to the organisation of the project separate from the content-related discussions and from the stuff about style, spelling and grammar. I have set up yet another new thread for the latter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F65718?thread=123439&post=1079903
We need more time
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 23, 2001
It's OK I have already asked for an extension, we should hear Monday.
Researcher PSG
We need more time
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 23, 2001
How much of an extension have you requested?
We need more time
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 23, 2001
A week, but at the end of that we could ask for more if neccesery.
We need more time
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 23, 2001
Asteroid Lil offers this unedited Guide Entry for the project.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A581979
It seems to be in the right sort of vein.
If we want to include it, perhaps we could invite Lil to join us.
We need more time
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 23, 2001
I agree it is the right vein, and it would be useful to explain what exactly goes on in the CPU's "brain", but if we where to include this it will need to be simplified, and used to complement what Ab Guy has said about compilers.
Researcher PSG
We need more time
Researcher PSG Posted Jun 23, 2001
I have just gone to the posting she left and said her entry may need some alteration, but if Lil is still interested to post here.
Researcher PSG
We need more time
Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Jun 23, 2001
I'm sorry to say, but I'm under great time pressure IRL, so I may not be able to finish my page on time.
I'll try to, but I don't know If I'll be able to spare the time.
Sorry,
Yours,
Dancer
We need more time
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 24, 2001
Dancer, the advantage of submitting your page with the project will be that it bypasses Peer Review.
The problem with submitting a related page at a time after the project is edited is that the new page will have to go through peer review. This means that we cannot link to it from the project pages whilst we are writing them. This is because the editing process through Peer Review results in a change of the new page's URL and we cannot know this new address in advance.
Moreover, it is currently difficult to alter pages once they have been accepted into the Edited Guide. This means that we won't be able to update any links in the project pages in the future unless the system changes. But there are rumours...
On the other hand, links to pages put through *with* the project will be updated, at the time, by the Sub-Ed. So the moral of this rather lengthy tale is that you should submit your pages with the project if at all possible. This also holds for Lil's page, Marv's ideas, PSG's extra pages and my page(s) on children's programming languages.
Amy the Ant
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