Talk:Coding Cookbook

Is this okay?
So, I started writing this set of documents, based on lots of code I've got lying around in various places. After some time, I got a remark that this book has got a lot in common with the Source Code project on Wikisource. I checked that location, and after recovering from the shock of so many missing links and such lack of structure, I see that some of the articles there would fit the criteria for this book.

But I am confused. Isn't Wikisource for finished books? It says so on help:How to start a book. While, with the development speed of computer systems, there will always be new "common tasks" to be performed and new practices to perform them. And why is that book there in the Wikisource namespace?

I wouldn't mind delving into that Wikisource project to restructure it, if there is any viability in that. (Since the project is already proposed for deletion.) Is there enough overlap in the two projects? For example, I wouldn't think the various "Hello World" programs have a place in this project, since they don't perform any usable function apart from letting the reading study the language in question.

Any input is appreciated!

-- Peter 13:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't know what the Wikisource code project was &mdash; it seems to have been deleted long ago, as I write this &mdash; but I agree this doesn't seem like a Wikisource thing. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:35, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

categories
I started to rearrange the categories for this book, but I think what I've done so far is less than ideal, and I also think we might do better with the book main page. The state of things so far: Likely things to do, moving forward: --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:21, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Our modern conventional practice on Wikibooks is that categories associated with a book become subpages of the book category. Doubtless this is far more firmly established now than when this book was started.  It seems the categories were set up in a naming hierarchy with root , though afaics the book was always called.
 * I treated the old Category:CodeCook as if it were being treated as the book category; recategorized its subcategories under the book category (which I still think was okay), and recategorized pages from Category:CodeCook to the book category &mdash; but that was perhaps not ideal.
 * The main page claims an alphabetical listing of code snippets, so perhaps we should have a subcategory called /Alphabetical containing all the snippets but not the book-organization pages. That would be the same list that the old Category:CodeCook had.
 * The other two hierarchies ought to be moved, imho, to help with project organization, from under root name  to under the root name of the book category.  As I write this, the book category name is , but there are plans to rename the book categories, so at some point the book category name may become  .  That might, or might not, be a sufficient reason to postpone renaming the other category hierarchies so they can be moved just once, instead of twice.
 * The main page might use DPLs to good effect.