Talk:Outline of computer science

message: Any idea why this page was moved to Wikipedia:Computer science basic topics ? Jay 06:55, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: ok issue resolved. Page was moved back. Jay 08:14, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: comment

message: Perhaps there is a need for list in Portal format, of major collections of computer articles, formatted similar to Portal:Browse. User:AlMac|(talk) 05:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:Computing]] 

message: Having seen this article listed as needing attention, I have undertaken a rewrite. Hopefully this rewrite addresses some of the concerns which were earlier raised on this page. I have tried to follow the style of the List of basic mathematical topics, which is a mix of broad topic areas and fundamental concepts. I'm sure I've left some key things out (or put some things in that shouldn't really be there). But this new list can hopefully serve as a starting point from which to converge on something everyone is happy with. --Allan McInnes (talk) 07:21, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks great to me — now it's actually about CS rather than just programming.  --bmills 14:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
The Transhumanist 01:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines" 

message: See the proposal at the Village pump
The Transhumanist 09:11, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to 

message: This doesn't seem to follow the template of some of the other outline articles. It probably needs a revamp. Comments? MahangaTalk 05:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone mind if I do go through and reformat/wikify things? For example, the lists could use real list formatting. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:07, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and did it. The hard-coded roman numerals seemed out of place, and the spaced hyphens had to go. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:11, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: cleanup?

message: I think the subsection on foundations should be split off into its own section before the "branches" section. Things like number theory are used in computer science but are not branches of computer science in any reasonable way. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:07, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I split this off to a separate section, which seems like a more clear division of topics. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:12, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  foundations 

message: Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.
Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.
The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guidelines for outlines 

message: Please add some relevant links to the history section.
Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates.  Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.
The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "History of" section needs links! 

message: "collaborative networks" is not a well accepted major subfield of computer science-- maybe in IT in general-- so I have removed it. The links were dead in any case.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.201.75 (talk) 06:22, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed "collaborative networks subsection 

message: "Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation.  The Transhumanist 00:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines