Timeline for Stack Overflow anthology project
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| Mar 2, 2010 at 8:08 | vote | accept | Thomas Jung | ||
| Feb 22, 2010 at 20:12 | comment | added | Pekka | @Jon you may well be right. But (as you can see from my answer) I find it intriguing enough to try something in the field once I have some spare time. We will see whether anything comes out of it! | |
| Feb 22, 2010 at 15:48 | comment | added | Jon Skeet | @Pekka: I can just see it being an awful lot of work for relatively little benefit. I could be wrong, of course :) | |
| Feb 22, 2010 at 14:19 | comment | added | Pekka | @Jon there is quality content on SO that is not necessary going to repeat itself in that detail and depth. Exploring other means of accessing that content other than SO's front page and tags could turn out to be very interesting. | |
| Feb 22, 2010 at 8:40 | comment | added | Jon Skeet | @Thomas: I'd encourage people to just watch new questions in the tags that interest them, if they're popular tags. There's enough interesting new traffic to keep people busy, I suspect... | |
| Feb 22, 2010 at 8:34 | comment | added | Thomas Jung | "Read questions that interest them:" Part of the problem is how do you find questions that are of interest and have a certain quality among 60k C# questions? Is search the only and best way in all circumstances? Browsing by tags for example is not usable at this scale. | |
| Feb 21, 2010 at 18:43 | history | edited | Jon Skeet | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 21, 2010 at 18:42 | comment | added | Jon Skeet | @Thomas: Yes, I hadn't seen that bit. I'm still not sure about the project as a whole though, to be honest. | |
| Feb 21, 2010 at 16:37 | comment | added | Thomas Jung | The goal is not to replace books but to complement them. ("Stackoverflow question and answers cannot replace text books, articles or blogs, but can provide exercises for a given topic.") I did not suggest to learn with SO questions only. This will not work as it would not work to learn with theory only without some form of exercises. | |
| Feb 21, 2010 at 14:44 | comment | added | Andreas Bonini | Have you tried learning a language you don't know at all from SO? If not, try. It's impossible. | |
| Feb 21, 2010 at 14:12 | history | edited | sth | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 21, 2010 at 12:21 | comment | added | Thomas Jung | Normally, CS books don't have a TAOCP-style exercise section. I suppose, it's hard enough to finish the book let alone come up with a lot of useful exercises. A SO companion anthology can help here to check what you have understood. | |
| Feb 21, 2010 at 12:07 | history | answered | Jon Skeet | CC BY-SA 2.5 |