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Welcome to the Zeroth World Wiki!

This is the nonlinear, less-polished companion site to the blog "Zeroth-World Problems". I guess you could call it a Bliki.

I started it to create a SemiPublicSpace where I could experiment with different analyses of of CS and software engineering concepts without any social pressure to use common terms, or to use terms for their commonly understood meanings. Accordingly, you'll find that my definitions of, say Function, Method, and Object are slightly different from the definitions you'd find elsewhere. However, that is no longer the primary purpose of the bliki. I'm now using it as a place to to keep notes and write rough drafts that might someday turn into blog posts.

Levels of Polish

You can assume everything is just a draft/notes unless it says otherwise.

I'll annotate pages with headers like STATUS: DRAFT or STATUS: PUBLISHED to indicate how fully-baked I think the ideas are. The levels go something like this:

• NOTES: the ideas are rough and unorganized. These pages are not meant to be intelligible to anyone but me.
• DRAFT: the ideas are structured into sentences and paragraphs, but the argument may trail off or have logical holes. I might not use terms consistently. The ideas might be bad. Use with caution.
• PUBLISHED: I'd publish this as a blog post if it weren't linked to so many other ideas as to be unsuitable for a linear format.

Interesting Starting Points

• Meta:WhyIsThisAWiki
• FifteenPropertiesInSoftware
• UIDesignPrinciples
• SoftwareTesting
• Abstraction
• ObjectOrientedProgramming