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Old 14-08-2009, 11:15   #23
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Re: Programming Challenges?

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Originally Posted by Rob M View Post
Keep these coming guys, they're really helping my enthusiasm

Have to confess that I'm starting small and just going through the basics with some course materials that I've got to get myself back up to speed - I haven't even tried the challenges that you're posting above

I'm tempted to suggest a monthly coding challenge, but I'm not sure how we would judge who the winner was (there are so many 'correct' answers to these sorts of things.....answers on a postcard please
This sounds like a great idea and I like the ideas that Damien outlined, here are a few other suggestions:

  1. Some people think code is the best if it can get the job done in the least amount of lines - this isn't always the case, so that's not a great one.
  2. Elegance is one I really like - if it's a new piece of code - using cutting edge technology such as LINQ in C# - then that's great and should be given more marks. Other examples: Boo, Spark, etc
  3. Voting would be a good idea - Perhaps having a programming challenge and then also giving the permission to expand on some previous code or develop new, intuitive ideas for it.
  4. Perhaps having a beginner, intermediate and advanced classes for the challenge would be a good one?
Seems like we actually have a nice number of developers on CF, this could turn out quite nicely!
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