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Can someone tell me what this has over, say, Codewars and Leetcode? It seems like there are not too many practice problems yet.
by lewis500 9y ago
Can someone tell me what this has over, say, Codewars and Leetcode? It seems like there are not too many practice problems yet.
- zjaffee 9y agoI believe when exercism came out it's primary goal was to help you get ramped up in a new language, however I'm uncertain if that's still the case.
- Kaivo 9y agoThe biggest upside compared to other code challenges I tried (HackerRank, CodinGame) is that the code is ran on your machine, and the pass/fails are from unit tests. So you code using your editors in a real development environment rather than in a web based sandbox. Also, as the checks are from tests, there are no single right answer. I've seen some code challenge services (can't remember the name) that would mark fail if you didn't write it exactly as they were expecting, to the line break.
- lewis500 9y agothat indeed could be an advantage. on codewars it sometimes takes a while for tests to run.
- coryc5 9y agoFor learning a language, I like and have used exercism but personally I prefer Codewars (and am a subscriber) because while exercises alone are a great way to get experience, perhaps the most valuable part of Codewars is being able to see what better coders did to solve the very same challenge. I have learned so much about what was capable in my favorite from those other answers.