I can understand how some people are worried about the word
certification, fearing that it would create some kind of hierarchy of
insiders, with everyone else being outsiders. Maybe this is because of
the nature of the word “certification”.
I share that fear. I’d hate to see people brand themselves as
outsiders by getting Ruby “certification”
…although it might be arguable that many Ruby programmers are certifiable.
Might? I thought it was a requirement. You mean you’re therapist
didn’t tell you to sign up for this list? I know mine did.
What about something like Programming Challenges
(www.programming-challenges.com)?
It could use those problems or even the Ruby Q. ones.
What would you guys think?
Certainly, if there were a site that advertised itself with “Want
to get
better at Ruby and have fun doing it? Visit http://…” I
would click
in an instant.
Peter S. and myself are currently working on a Ruby version
of the pythonchallenge.com project.
We’ve registered the rubychallenge.com domain, and we’ve talked
to the Nadav who created pythonchallenge.com. In fact Nadav actually
offered to join us and give us all of his puzzles to port over to ruby.
We’ve decided to not go that route, although it will take a bit
longer we felt that original content would be better in the long run.
We have registered the project on rubyforge and hopefully
we’ll have something available soon for people to see and play with.
We’ve got some really innovative ideas happening, this is not going to
be a port, in fact its not going to be like anything else on the market.
I’ll be at Canada on Rails in Vancouver on April 13-14 and hopefully
will have something to show people by that time.
Please make the higher levels as weird and wiggy as you possibly can.
Well, that won’t be a problem at all We have to make a lot of
decisions and have some issues to resolve, but to craft some weird
levels is definitely not among them
Also, if you need help, I wouldn’t mind porting some puzzles from
Python. It’s absolutely alliterative.
Well, we would like to come out with a first design and a basic set of
riddles, but after this we would definitely like to ask the community
members to contribute with ideas.
What do you mean by ‘porting some puzzles from Python’? If you mean
from pythonchallenge, we decided to drop that idea (as we would not like
to viloate the copyright or something).
Well, we would like to come out with a first design and a basic set of
riddles, but after this we would definitely like to ask the community
members to contribute with ideas.
What do you mean by ‘porting some puzzles from Python’? If you mean
from pythonchallenge, we decided to drop that idea (as we would not like
to viloate the copyright or something).
The creator of python challenge offered to give us (Peter and me) the
source to
all the puzzles he has hosted on his website, he is really quite cool.
He also said that he has had it in mind to do this sort of thing for
quite
some time, but I guess he is busy just like the rest of us and just
never found
the time. I have no idea where Peter and myself are finding the time,
we both work
full-time as well as take schooling, but somehow we’re managing.
But regarding the content at pythonchallenge.com as Peter said, we’ve
decided we don’t want to copy that content, many people have already
solved those puzzles as they’re quite generic.
We will be more than happy to look at any original work from authors
after we make our
initial release.
We have to make a lot of