[WWdevel] National Problem Library

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

Hi,

I find the ordering of  Subjects, Chapters and Sections in the 
"Problem Library" strange and confusing. E.g. select "Calculus" and 
then list the Chapters.  Except for the "All ..." on top, it looks 
like the rest show up in a random order.

One thing we could do is to use an alphabetic/numeric sort so at 
present everything below  "All ..." would be alphabetic and in the 
future if someone decides to add numerical labels, e.g. rename 
"Advanced Calculus" to "17.  Advanced Calculus", then this would be 
the 17th item on the list.  Maybe a better thing to do would be to 
set up a hash and assign a numerical value to each heading and then 
list the items in numerical order. Using this it would be easy to add 
a new items anywhere in the list.  There would be a little work in 
coming up with a good ordering but probably we would just follow the 
ordering in popular text books.

Any comments or other ideas on this?

Arnie





Prof. Arnold K. Pizer
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-7767