Something like a nice white with some kind of faint design on it

And good call on the "official" tutorials. The Turing Walkthrough works reasonably well for Turing, maybe we could have something similar for other languages.

Well while I'll be fixing how the forum handles CSS, I might as well port /blog's theme.

And good call on the "official" tutorials. The works reasonably well for Turing, maybe we could have something similar for other languages.

The current forum has a tutorials section that is empty except for one tutorial.. tutorials could either be moved to that or it could be removed, but it doesn't make much sense to have tutorials posted on the forum when there is a tutorial section.

What I would really like to see happen is for tutorials to be moved to the Wiki and the wiki becoming more widely used. I notice that there are already some tutorials on there. Merging the phpBB and MediaWiki login systems would be great, but I don't know how easy that would be. If it is too difficult, automatically registering phpBB users on MediaWiki with the same password at the time of signup would be a half-decent workaround.

To make the wiki more popular, you could consider adding a [ wiki ] tag to the forum bbcode for easy linking. Many of the links at the top of the page (links, gallery, tutorials and articles) could be moved to the wiki where it would be easier to update them and at the same time make the wiki more popular.

The tutorals don't get moved when posted there, they are liked there and shown there but they also existice on the forum.



The users are allready linked, however it dose not work for wired usernames that have symbols in them. It is also case cesntive.



There allready is a wiki tag that dose just that.

I think if we targeted the site more towards "real" computer science, possibly for university students, we would not only get more experts on here but people who are not in university could actually learn something about CS.

I like compsci.ca, I have learned a lot, but I hardly know anything about the field of computer science and its branches relative to a university student. Maybe if we had the subforums organized differently, instead of having a subforum for each language (which promotes more syntactic problems/discussion) we could have subforums for the different branches of CS and algorithms. Also, a math/physics subforum might be be good.

Or maybe that wouldn't make a difference, I don't know. Maybe the whole goal is to make this a high school forum.

You can't have both. Organize Compsci.ca by concepts taught and you make it more difficult for students to find helpful information pertaining to the language they're using. Organize it the other way and you have information about concepts spread across multiple forums.

Try to have it both ways and you end up with an unwieldy number of forums and subforums.

maybe you could have a portion of the forums for these types of things

To varying extents, students not only have difficulty with the concepts, but with the actual implementation of them. From here we get discussion pertaining to specific languages.

You can't have both. Organize Compsci.ca by concepts taught and you make it more difficult for students to find helpful information pertaining to the language they're using. Organize it the other way and you have information about concepts spread across multiple forums.

Try to have it both ways and you end up with an unwieldy number of forums and subforums.

I would also like to suggest something along these lines. I myself am interested in the cutting edge research areas of computer science, maybe you could have a portion of the forums for these types of things, for example artificial intelligence, distributed computing, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction, etc. While i like the programming sections you have now it seems like its only a small part of computer science.

Computer science isn't just programming... but that's the language it's discussed in. Imagine a literature class where no one discusses language.

well the way we've done this before, is that if General Discussion / General Programming / Offtopic accumulates enough discussion on a particular topic, that topic is promoted to its own forum. All of the suggestions are fine, in theory, but creating a bunch of empty stubs does not promote discussion well.

Start new threads in a general area, tag subject lines appropriately, and we'll take it from there.

I don't know if I'll be doing anything productive.

Maybe add a Unix/Linux section, or make them separate? Also, have shell scripting tutorials and stuff like that...

What do you think?

Add a search creator bar. Allowing the person to search the forums by a specific Programmer. Some time I want to find my own stuff I posted, but I forget the names so I try entering my name and random topics pop up. Please add this. It will be a major improvement.

I think you guys should make the colour scheme a little more lively, no offense but grey is kind of dull.

It's not grey, it's blue! Sleek new age blue!

I think you guys should make the colour scheme a little more lively, no offense but grey is kind of dull.

Perhaps you may have enjoyed our limited edition forum style from 2006 more: http://wiki.compsci.ca/index.php?title=File:April_2006.jpg

Go hello kitty!

LOL, my first thought was April Fools' day but then I realized that this was more of a Valentines kind of thing