Benjamin L. Russell:
I am interested in starting a new mailing list on Haskell.org, aimed
mainly at liberal arts teachers and elementary-level learners of
Haskell, called "Haskell-Edu: The Haskell Educational Mailing
List." This new mailing list would be guided by the principle that
Haskell is useful not just in research, but also in teaching
programming as part of a liberal arts education, on a par with
Scheme. When I suggested the idea of this mailing list to Simon
Marlow, the Haskell.org mailing list administrator, he suggested
that I post this idea on The Haskell Mailing List, so I am posting
it here to ask for feedback.
The main purposes of this new (proposed) mailing list would be as
follows:
1) To provide a primarily non-research-oriented discussion forum to
serve the needs of users wishing to focus on the uses of Haskell in
education, such as in high school and in introductory computer
science college courses, as opposed to in research.
2) To provide a primarily non-research-oriented discussion forum to
serve the needs of non-computer-science students of Haskell who wish
to focus on Haskell as a language for learning programming as part
of a well-rounded a liberal arts education, as opposed to an
engineering/mathematics/science-oriented education.
The Haskell community seems to be growing quickly and clearly becomes
more diverse. So, a mailing list aimed at users with less experience
and/or a non-computing, non-math background makes sense to me.
Whether you will be able to gather a critical mass of knowledgeable
people who are happy to answer questions on the list is hard to answer
without trying your idea. But mailing lists are cheap. So, I'd say,
let's give it a try and see whether it works. In any case, it'd be
important to describe the purpose of the list at
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Mailing_lists
properly to make clear which discussions should go to which list.
Manuel
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