Daily activities that aren't bound to participants' availability sound like a great way to establish consistent visitors. I've only done things like LeetCode to prepare for interviews myself, so...
Daily activities that aren't bound to participants' availability sound like a great way to establish consistent visitors. I've only done things like LeetCode to prepare for interviews myself, so take that as an outsider's perspective. There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to track a challenge of the day. Is anyone familiar with plans to implement sticky posts in groups?
I think we could try one time and see how the "activity" sort handles it: if folks keep posting new solutions / feedback, it'll probably stay quite visible and it will naturally die down when...
I think we could try one time and see how the "activity" sort handles it: if folks keep posting new solutions / feedback, it'll probably stay quite visible and it will naturally die down when folks aren't interested in that challenge anymore.
If anyone has an idea of a nice "challenge", the week-end is upon us so more time to get nice solutions out :)
Sounds good. So far I like all three challenges, and they're each of different difficulty levels, so I'm fine with any of them showing up. Even the intro-level ones are opportunities for...
Sounds good. So far I like all three challenges, and they're each of different difficulty levels, so I'm fine with any of them showing up. Even the intro-level ones are opportunities for practicing maintainable code!
Possible idea that should be accessible to different skill levels: implementing bitwise AND, OR, or XOR for integers without using existing bitwise operators. Bonus points for not using any...
Possible idea that should be accessible to different skill levels: implementing bitwise AND, OR, or XOR for integers without using existing bitwise operators. Bonus points for not using any built-in binary conversion utilities. Extra bonus points for handling multiple types.
If a special sub is created specifically for those challenges, then you could go directly to that sub and sort by new. Otherwise, if tag filtering is put in place, then we could filter by a tag...
If a special sub is created specifically for those challenges, then you could go directly to that sub and sort by new. Otherwise, if tag filtering is put in place, then we could filter by a tag e.g. daily challenge and, once again, sort by new.
There are plenty of ways to handle this problem! :)
Tag filtering sounds like the way to go for this case. Even if the group was made specifically for daily challenges, I doubt the challenges would be the only posts, thus the main post of the day...
Tag filtering sounds like the way to go for this case. Even if the group was made specifically for daily challenges, I doubt the challenges would be the only posts, thus the main post of the day would be lost or obscured.
Could be a good application of subgroups. You could have something like comp.challenges, with comp retaining the general talk, and possibly a filterable subgroup like comp.challenges.discussion...
Could be a good application of subgroups. You could have something like comp.challenges, with comp retaining the general talk, and possibly a filterable subgroup like comp.challenges.discussion for talk about the challenges.
In an ideal world where all users obediently used each group as intended, yes. Alternatively if subgroups had permissions on them where only the creator could create posts but any users could...
In an ideal world where all users obediently used each group as intended, yes. Alternatively if subgroups had permissions on them where only the creator could create posts but any users could comment for the comp.challenges group, then it'd stay orderly.
I haven't seen that subreddit, but I would love to try my hand at an occasional programming challenge! I love seeing the solutions others come up with as well. If we go this route, I think it...
I haven't seen that subreddit, but I would love to try my hand at an occasional programming challenge! I love seeing the solutions others come up with as well. If we go this route, I think it would be good to throw in a way to opt-in for feedback on your code, as I love giving my feedback and receiving it as well, but also understand that some users may feel too much pressure at first if feedback is a given.
We would probably want a ranking system for difficulty and to provide different difficulty levels, too, just to provide programmers of different skill levels equal opportunity to participate :)
As the community grows, I'm sure different ideas will have been tested and an ideal setup agreed upon. Probably the best approach is just to try anything at all and see where it takes us!
As the community grows, I'm sure different ideas will have been tested and an ideal setup agreed upon. Probably the best approach is just to try anything at all and see where it takes us!
I'm a mod for /r/webdev and /r/web_design back on reddit and I've hosted several weekly challenges. It's a ton of work to manage and the participation is a mixed bag. When it first starts it has...
I'm a mod for /r/webdev and /r/web_design back on reddit and I've hosted several weekly challenges. It's a ton of work to manage and the participation is a mixed bag. When it first starts it has some momentum but it runs its course after 6 or so weeks - and those were weekly challenges. Daily challenges reek of burnout.
This sounds awesome :D I would love for something like this to happen here. I didn't know about that subreddit, but it does look like it's not very active anymore...
This sounds awesome :D I would love for something like this to happen here. I didn't know about that subreddit, but it does look like it's not very active anymore...
Daily activities that aren't bound to participants' availability sound like a great way to establish consistent visitors. I've only done things like LeetCode to prepare for interviews myself, so take that as an outsider's perspective. There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to track a challenge of the day. Is anyone familiar with plans to implement sticky posts in groups?
I think we could try one time and see how the "activity" sort handles it: if folks keep posting new solutions / feedback, it'll probably stay quite visible and it will naturally die down when folks aren't interested in that challenge anymore.
If anyone has an idea of a nice "challenge", the week-end is upon us so more time to get nice solutions out :)
That would be an excellent intro-level challenge, actually!
Sounds good. So far I like all three challenges, and they're each of different difficulty levels, so I'm fine with any of them showing up. Even the intro-level ones are opportunities for practicing maintainable code!
I don't seriously mean this as a suggested challenge, but it'd be criminal if nobody put up Fizz-Buzz
It's FizzBuzz. Of course it should be one of our challenges!
Possible idea that should be accessible to different skill levels: implementing bitwise AND, OR, or XOR for integers without using existing bitwise operators. Bonus points for not using any built-in binary conversion utilities. Extra bonus points for handling multiple types.
Thoughts?
If a special sub is created specifically for those challenges, then you could go directly to that sub and sort by
new. Otherwise, if tag filtering is put in place, then we could filter by a tag e.g.daily challengeand, once again, sort bynew.There are plenty of ways to handle this problem! :)
Tag filtering sounds like the way to go for this case. Even if the group was made specifically for daily challenges, I doubt the challenges would be the only posts, thus the main post of the day would be lost or obscured.
Could be a good application of subgroups. You could have something like comp.challenges, with comp retaining the general talk, and possibly a filterable subgroup like comp.challenges.discussion for talk about the challenges.
In an ideal world where all users obediently used each group as intended, yes. Alternatively if subgroups had permissions on them where only the creator could create posts but any users could comment for the comp.challenges group, then it'd stay orderly.
I haven't seen that subreddit, but I would love to try my hand at an occasional programming challenge! I love seeing the solutions others come up with as well. If we go this route, I think it would be good to throw in a way to opt-in for feedback on your code, as I love giving my feedback and receiving it as well, but also understand that some users may feel too much pressure at first if feedback is a given.
We would probably want a ranking system for difficulty and to provide different difficulty levels, too, just to provide programmers of different skill levels equal opportunity to participate :)
As the community grows, I'm sure different ideas will have been tested and an ideal setup agreed upon. Probably the best approach is just to try anything at all and see where it takes us!
I'm a mod for /r/webdev and /r/web_design back on reddit and I've hosted several weekly challenges. It's a ton of work to manage and the participation is a mixed bag. When it first starts it has some momentum but it runs its course after 6 or so weeks - and those were weekly challenges. Daily challenges reek of burnout.
This sounds awesome :D I would love for something like this to happen here. I didn't know about that subreddit, but it does look like it's not very active anymore...
I'm up for some challenges.