Add 'math' topic to relevant exercises in track config #268
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The new site lets people filter optional exercises by topic, and this makes it easy for people to skip past them. This is important since the math-y exercises are not key to learning the language, and a lot of people find them intimidating and demotivating. This updates any 'mathematics' topics to be 'math' since it's shorter and won't get cropped in the UI. It also removes the math topics for any exercises that are not in the canonical math-y list.
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| "unlocked_by": null, | |||
| "difficulty": 3, | |||
| "topics": [ | |||
| "arithmetic", | |||
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I'm a bit unsure whether we remove arithmetic here. I think that it's not really mathy, but I'll admit that there's arithmetic involved. I'm tempted to leave it off per the discussion in exercism/exercism#4110
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It uses floating point arithmetic, which is a bit special in OCaml (you need to use floating point specific operators as there's no overloading). So floating_point might be worth adding to this list.
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I agree! I'll update this one to say 'floating_point'. Thanks!
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@stevejb71 It already has floats. Should we go with floats or floating_point?
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I see the topics.txt file has floating_point_numbers, so I think we should go with that.
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One thing to be aware of is that in the UI long names get truncated. I'd lean towards floats (and would suggest updating topics.txt, too).
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Might be good to add a rule to check lengths in the config linter.
I'm ok with floats.
The new site lets people filter optional exercises by topic, and this
makes it easy for people to skip past them.
This is important since the math-y exercises are not key to learning
the language, and a lot of people find them intimidating and demotivating.
This updates any 'mathematics' topics to be 'math' since it's shorter
and won't get cropped in the UI.
It also removes the math topics for any exercises that are not in the
canonical math-y list.
exercism/exercism#4110