The age-old question strikes again! I'm not asking for what is best, just what is currently used for intro to programming for CS majors, at university/college level. If you don't mind it would be interesting if you could include your institution's name also, but understand if you don't want that ...

What is the best way of tagging questions to identify the combination of experience level and age range which a question is focused on? Ideally in a way which will be internationally relevant?

In browsing the site today I noticed a number of questions where the first comment was "what level of education" (or similar). We should add tags to help answer that question and further categorize the question. We'd have to come up with something that was culture agnostic (E.g. US folks may no...

Now that we're in public beta, it might be a good time to think about expanding parts of the help center. For example the what's on topic page isn't as helpful to new users as it can be. Additionally, the text here: (The above section was adapted from MetaFilter’s FAQ.) that suggests that...

Let's go through this from best to worst: 100% answered - excellent: Need I say more? We've answered every question. Around 4.2 answers a question - excellent. So we're kind of rocking the answers. 48 avid users, 1,255 total users - okay (on pace for 80 200+ rep users, 3 2000+, and 3 3000+)....

I'm planning to do a basic comparison of some Area 51 statistics, so I've put the information of the first 15 sites in public beta into a small spreadsheet. As asked in chat, I'll provide the data as a CSV dump in a community wiki answer here. Feel free to edit in more sites or updated statistic...

I've done some (very basic) comparsion of 15 beta sites using this data dump to find out how good our statistics are compared to the ones of other sites. Number of questions per day: We're above the average amount and in the top 3 sites. No site in the dump reaches the "Excellent" threshold tho...

Automatic cross-site queries have been made possible by senshin in this query (mind you, large queries will timeout) (current version https://data.stackexchange.com/space/query/355774/cross-site-query-template by Mark Hurd): -- Create cursor for list of sites DECLARE sites CURSOR FOR SELECT na...

We previously discussed the possibility of updating the help center here. Since we can do it, and we have mods who will do it, what do we want to put in there? When drafting new sections, feel free to look at other sites /help/ pages to see what ours should look like. Here are the sections we c...

The best approach I've found is (at first) to do nothing… not until a pattern of problems can be established definitively in actual practice. You may want to fill in a line or two describing your subject space, but let the participants use the site intuitively before you get into the habit of enu...