I don't really know what direction the site will take, but I think you are missing the point there.
The FizzBuzz test might be very easy, but you are assuming that these challenges will be for people of your own skill level. Probably the site will want to cater for a wider audience, from beginner to advanced, and FizzBuzz provides a good starting point for both.
And anyway, we have all read enough about FizzBuzz to know that even "experienced" "professionals" can fail spectacularly at it.
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) :)
Is meant as a hook. And the most important part is that you complete it, that's the kind of validation they are after. But all feedback is good, so I am sure they'll have harder challenges soon.
Looking forward to its launch!
First challenge is easy, indeed, but I guess there will be much more difficult ones in the real competitions.
Well, perhaps you could have different difficulty levels... and from what I see know, it looks like you are already moving in that direction
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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.
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.
Clojure would be great! It's an awesome language with a great community behind it, it would be awesome to see it get more traction and start making it into more challenge sites like this one.
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[ 5.9 ms ] story [ 77.2 ms ] threadI was expecting some kind of code-golf mark for that challenge though. There are many ways to solve it.
The FizzBuzz test might be very easy, but you are assuming that these challenges will be for people of your own skill level. Probably the site will want to cater for a wider audience, from beginner to advanced, and FizzBuzz provides a good starting point for both.
And anyway, we have all read enough about FizzBuzz to know that even "experienced" "professionals" can fail spectacularly at it.
*: random figure
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) :)
Hope this helps! :)
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.
That's more like this: http://alan.dipert.org/post/172774481/fizzbuzz-in-scala-and-...
For instance, without entering any changes, I got: http://codersumo.com/solutions/Id1SOh
[Not there yet. Your solution is not correct. Try again!]
Then, going to: http://codersumo.com/solutions/Id1SOh/correct gives a welcome page.