kolodny/exercises
Learning and science
coding challenges
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6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful resource for practicing and upskilling in JavaScript
From 3 comments
Looking on working on upping my JS skills in the near future. This will be very helpful, thank you!
kdamken on HNHey those are pretty neat challenges! Personally I like tackling a project I'm interested in that requires many of these aspects but these are pretty handy if you want to quickly…
BinaryIdiot on HNI really like the approach of cloning the repository and writing to the tests!
clintonc on HN
Well done and useful for interview prep
From 2 comments
Man, I really hope people contribute to this. It would be great to see the list of challenges with supposed difficulty level and expected amount of time needed to finish. Someone…
kevin on HNThis looks great. Rebecca Murphy's JS Assessment is also a good resource for testing your JavaScript chops: https://github.com/rmurphey/js-assessment
dlo83 on HN
Objections
Throttle challenge tests appear inconsistent
From 1 comment
Think there's an issue with the throttle challenge For tests 3 and 4, you expect the context and args to be determined by the last callback. But according to the first 2 tests,…
reqres on HN
Challenges may be too hard for timed interviews
From 2 comments
Are these challenges supposed to be solvable within a reasonable amount of time in an interview (15-30 minutes)? Looking through the problems they are all things I could do, but…
danielvinson on HNIs solving a problem like this in 15-30 minutes under a good deal of stress and likely without reference likely on a whiteboard something someone in the position you're hiring…
seanp2k2 on HN
Functional programming terminology may confuse web developers
From 1 comment
It's cool that these challenges are so functional programming oriented, but I'd be a little bit concerned that the terminology might throw off some otherwise-skilled web…
rmrfrmrf on HN
Requests
Add difficulty levels and time estimates
From 1 comment
Man, I really hope people contribute to this. It would be great to see the list of challenges with supposed difficulty level and expected amount of time needed to finish. Someone…
kevin on HN
More challenges of medium difficulty
From 1 comment
I like their interface a lot, but I'm not sure how I feel about the challenges they actually have for JS. It seems like there's a lot of challenges that are trivially solvable…
epmatsw on HN
Questions
Are challenges meant to be solved in a 15-30 minute interview?
From 1 comment
Are these challenges supposed to be solvable within a reasonable amount of time in an interview (15-30 minutes)? Looking through the problems they are all things I could do, but…
danielvinson on HN
Why is index.js edited instead of test.js?
From 1 comment
Why would I edit index.js in vim vs test.js -- possible typo?
phragg on HN
Alternatives named
Codewars
From 1 comment
Another great site of challenges can be found at http://codewars.com
13years on HN
HackerRank
From 1 comment
HackerRank has a pretty good collection of multi-language challenges with a range of difficulties and problem domains to choose from: https://www.hackerrank.com/ There's also a…
lewisl9029 on HN
Rebecca Murphy's js-assessment
From 1 comment
This looks great. Rebecca Murphy's JS Assessment is also a good resource for testing your JavaScript chops: https://github.com/rmurphey/js-assessment
dlo83 on HN