New field for computer science / programming?

Daniel Hartwig mandyke at gmail.com
Fri May 24 06:21:45 UTC 2013


On 21 May 2013 02:16, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> I see a need for a field tag for packages like scratch and turtleart,
> which are intended to teach kids to code.  Not quite sure what the
> field should be called.  field::computerscience, perhaps?  Or
> field::programming?
>
> Any ideas how to best handle this?
>

Computer science, perhaps with programming as a subfield.  Do you have
some idea how many packages would use programming?

Oddly, scratch is currently tagged field::physics, which should rather
be mathematics.

> I've tagged some packages in need of a new field tag with field::TODO
> to make them easier to find.
>
> The reason I believe these packages should get a field tag is that
> golearn in the goplay package only will show packages with a field::*
> tag, and I believe scratch, turtleart and a few other similar programs
> should should up in golearn.
>

In the absence of a more specific tag, field::mathematics is appropriate IMO.



More information about the Debtags-devel mailing list