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CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by fruchtose »

ninetax wrote: post #39

Hey here's an idea: Let people create their own challenges and let them assign some point values to them (if the person is a high scorer, maybe let them give the challenge higher points). Then other people can try to solve it and vote on user created challenges. Get the ecosystem going! What do you think?

This idea has been done before by a site called KnowledgeBlackBelt, formerly JavaBlackBelt--although the idea is heavily perverted in its current incarnation. The site works on the concept of tests and courses. The test questions are submitted by users, but to take the courses you need to pay for an instructor of some kind to teach you. Completing tests moves you up ranks.

I contributed to a few questions a few years back before the site introduced this paid instruction aspect. A lot of good material was created through crowdsourcing. I am sure it could work again.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by nicholassmith »

thejosh wrote: post #24
ninetax wrote: post #23

Ah, I just have to say I loved that I could just start doing them. No sign up, no email or anything, you just gave them to me. Wonderful.

Being able to see what it was without dicking about with authentication was great.

Yeah it was a really nice change to just jump straight in.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by nicholassmith »

daguar wrote: post #12

Not to troll, but this seems quite close to Codecademy and HackerRank, without much of those sites' additional benefits.

More choice is usually a good thing, it's a pretty nice project and it's still early days so it might fit somewhere.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by nicholassmith »

dpritchett wrote: post #26
hellcow wrote: post #22

I wish I could see the whole leader-board or how points were allocated so I could improve my score. Otherwise, very nice job.

I've completed every point-granting action I could find on the site and I'm at 4029. 2528 of that came from linking my Github profile. I assume that component scales based on the usual GH vanity metrics. The person atop of the leaderboard ( https://github.com/joho ) has 700+ 'stars' between his 70+ GH repos.

I'd be interested in knowing what the github metric is calculated off as I was moderately surprised at getting 800ish for my mostly slim GH account.
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