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Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

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Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

#11
post #8

Looks like you've included your /assets/application- .js on every page, not just the homepage. This makes ACE throw errors because you don't have an element with an ID of "editor" on every page as well. Hope this helps! :)

Oh! ok, thanks! need to have a look at it.

Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

#13
Pitching a slow ball just begging to be hit out of the park. Nice hook ;)

The interesting thing for me was which language to do it in. I hovered over JavaScript and Python before finally opting to do it in "safe" Java... a language I haven't programmed in for ten years but whose C-style syntax I could write in my sleep.

Attempting challenges could be helpful for keeping me on my toes in other languages.

Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

#16
It seems like sites like this are becoming more popular, or at least the idea of them is. This is the second one I've seen recently, the other is http://www.codewa.rs/, this one looks interesting since it's for more languages than just javascript. Regardless it defiantly looks like fun, can't wait till the real version is released.

Re: Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.

#18
post #2

First challenge is too easy.

If something is too easy to be interesting, find ways to make it more interesting.

Like, after the naive solution try without if statement, then without switch statement, and so on, until you are eventually left with just a print statement (+ given for loop) :)

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