From Coding Exercises to Coding Missions!

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Hi everyone - something I’m kicking the tires with is trying out small coding challenges (that I’m calling missions) that people can partake in, post their solution, and get a customized badge for each coding challenge.

Here is the first such mission: Sum Up an Array of Numbers : Coding Mission

Thoughts on this? Anything you think I should change?

:slight_smile:

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It looks like a good step. I wish it was similar to https://www.codewars.com. Perhaps make the posting code snippet into the forum a bit more automated? Drag your files here, which will automatically post the code to the forums. Perhaps some unit tests that confirm the behaviour of your coding mission.

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I take it that you have to manually assign these badges? Is this something you think would ultimately get automated in some way?

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It is something I’m doing manually right now, but I am totally down for automating it if the volume of items gets too large :robot:

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One thing I’ve realized from adding more of these exercises is that there needs to be a filtering mechanism on the landing page for them. In the interim, I’ll just go with Easy / Medium / Hard. Longer-term, I’ll need to come up with more interesting ways of making it easy to filter through these items.