Show HN: Solvers.io – use your skills to improve our world

Re:Show HN: Solvers.io – use your skills to improve our world by vise890 on Friday March 14, 2014 @02:10PM (#7400698)

This should just be how (at least some) homework/coursework material is generated at universities/colleges.

If a simple CRUD app can solve real world problems, then why not make students make it. If it ends up being used, it can even go on their resume.

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Re:Show HN: Solvers.io – use your skills to improve our world by davedx on Friday March 14, 2014 @02:43PM (#7400909)

Great idea! It's a nice way for people to find work or study experience. We'll look into reaching out to undergraduate programmes.

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Re:Show HN: Solvers.io – use your skills to improve our world by vise890 on Monday March 17, 2014 @06:36PM (#7418577)

I'd really love to see that! So much of my undergraduate coursework felt like a complete waste of time since it was essentially throw away work.

As a plus, a teacher/TA is marking the work anyways, so you might have several people going at a problem from different angles and having the quality of the work evaluated by someone who (presumably) knows their stuff.

I bet this could work well for group works/final projects.

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