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I think it's a great idea. I would rather a set of tutorials though. I don't want to email and waste somebody's time if I'm not able to commit to anything.
by darkFunction 12y ago
I think it's a great idea. I would rather a set of tutorials though. I don't want to email and waste somebody's time if I'm not able to commit to anything.
- kristoffer 12y agoYou're only wasting cpu cycles ... you're emailing a bot.
- darkFunction 12y agoI see. In that case, why not just put the exercises online?
- farresito 12y agoTo get used to the kernel way of sending patches: email.
- kristoffer 12y agoGamification ... you need to "level up" to get new challenges.
- uulbiy 12y agoActually, it's processed by a script (a bot if you like), however, if something fails a person replies to you. This is the problem with many of the challengers. When everything is ok they proceed, when something fails[1] it might take weeks to get a reply. [1]: failure might be because of a corner case or an implementation not working on a specific configuration.
- dezgeg 12y agoThe author _says_ that it's done by shell scripts, but in reality he's checking them by hand (i.e. in the coding tasks you get actual code review).