Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by lmcnish14 on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:08PM
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One reason to submit before it passes is so that you can see how others did it. If you're learning a new language and don't even know where to start, it can be useful to get help from others first then try to implement it yourself.
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Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by scottmf on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:42PM
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It would be nice if it could run tests in-browser to show whether a submission passes or not.
Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by Jnnz on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:39PM
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Isn't that cheating?
Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by cavanasm on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:57PM
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IIRC, exercism doesn't really encourage completing things for points, and didn't especially heavily gamify the learning process. Copying answers really just seemed like shortchanging yourself when I was using it.
Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by drdrey on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:04PM
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It's not cheating if you're trying to learn, not compete
Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by Elidrake24 on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:41PM
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Doesn't that really depend upon the way that you treat the problem? If you're just looking to pass, what do you have to gain? This isn't a course in College.
Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by yeahbutbut on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:42PM
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You're the one deciding what you need out of the material so that's up to you ;-)
Re:Exercism – Level up your programming skills
by lmcnish14 on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:48PM
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If you don't know how to even get started, what do you have to gain from just being stuck?
When I started on the assembly track, looking at others code to figure out how to get set up for the first challenge allowed me to do the rest on my own.