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Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

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Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

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First challenge is too easy.

Depends on what you want it to achieve. If you want to reach out to people with a minimum experience in coding I think it does a great job.

I was expecting some kind of code-golf mark for that challenge though. There are many ways to solve it.

Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

#6
Looking forward to its launch! First challenge is easy, indeed, but I guess there will be much more difficult ones in the real competitions. Well, perhaps you could have different difficulty levels... and from what I see know, it looks like you are already moving in that direction

Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

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First challenge is too easy.

I don't really know what direction the site will take, but I think you are missing the point there.

The FizzBuzz test might be very easy, but you are assuming that these challenges will be for people of your own skill level. Probably the site will want to cater for a wider audience, from beginner to advanced, and FizzBuzz provides a good starting point for both.

And anyway, we have all read enough about FizzBuzz to know that even "experienced" "professionals" can fail spectacularly at it.

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