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@petertseng petertseng commented Jan 29, 2017

While evaluating that a proposed hello-world exercise in #475 would
introduce Maybe into the track at the first exercise, I found myself
wondering what other exercises introduce Maybe. I decided to put this,
and select other topics, into the config.json file.

The topics selected are, largely, those that might affect a problem
ordering decision. They are topics that either require some effort to
grasp (so we should not put them too early) and/or are repetitive (so we
should not place them too close together).

  • Maybe
  • Either
  • Lazy evaluation
  • Define a data type
  • Library reimplementation
  • Refactoring
  • accumulator-strictness
  • instance TC (where TC is any typeclass other than Eq or Show)
  • IO Monad
    • Random
    • Mutable state

Closes #274.

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These can't be the only topics that are important in this way. You could help by suggesting more.

While evaluating that a proposed hello-world exercise in #475 would
introduce Maybe into the track at the first exercise, I found myself
wondering what other exercises introduce Maybe. I decided to put this,
and select other topics, into the config.json file.

The topics selected are, largely, those that might affect a problem
ordering decision. They are topics that either require some effort to
grasp (so we should not put them too early) and/or are repetitive (so we
should not place them too close together).

* Maybe
* Either
* Lazy evaluation
* Define a data type
* Library reimplementation
* Refactoring
* Accumulator-strictness
* instance TC (where TC is any typeclass other than Eq or Show)
* IO Monad
  * Random
  * Mutable state

Closes #274.
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I didn't check each topic against the exercises, but I bet everything is great.

Thanks for doing all the hard work, @petertseng!

@petertseng petertseng merged commit 10f3ad6 into exercism:master Jan 30, 2017
@petertseng petertseng deleted the topics branch January 30, 2017 04:00
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Update config.json to match new specification
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