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I find it interesting that the list of supported languages doesn't include Java, which is one of the most, if not the most, requested language - at least in the

by koevet 12y ago

I find it interesting that the list of supported languages doesn't include Java, which is one of the most, if not the most, requested language - at least in the enterprise space.

lutusp 12y ago
I don't know anything specific about the site, but that might reflect an aesthetic bias overcoming the realization that Java is ubiquitous. It all depends on the degree to which a site's operators care about teaching what's being used in real-world projects. If I ran such a site, I might want to suppress my own aesthetic preferences, but even I would probably exclude PHP, as one example, only because it doesn't represent an easy way to create reliable, understandable programs.
- LLWM 12y ago
  It's a conspicious omission for something that's being sold as "The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job".
  - djur 12y ago
    I've been on exercism for a while and this is the first time I've ever heard such a claim. The headline seems to be based on this weaker remark in the article: "it could help the legions of people out there trying to learn to code well enough to land a job in this fast-growing field". And even that isn't directly based on any quote from anyone related to the site. exercism is definitely a volunteer-driven, open-source operation, and the exercises come from people willing to contribute them. I was going through the OCaml exercises and found that one of them had an error[1]; I submitted a pull request and it was accepted within hours. I think this is a case of a clickbait headline that doesn't do justice to the article nor the subject. [1] Unlike some similar sites, exercism doesn't actually build and test your submissions. This makes the site much simpler and cheaper to run, but also makes a point that simply passing the included test suite is only the first step. But it also sometimes results in sloppily-written exercises for the more marginal languages.

by koevet 12y ago

I find it interesting that the list of supported languages doesn't include Java, which is one of the most, if not the most, requested language - at least in the enterprise space.

lutusp 12y ago

I don't know anything specific about the site, but that might reflect an aesthetic bias overcoming the realization that Java is ubiquitous. It all depends on the degree to which a site's operators care about teaching what's being used in real-world projects. If I ran such a site, I might want to suppress my own aesthetic preferences, but even I would probably exclude PHP, as one example, only because it doesn't represent an easy way to create reliable, understandable programs.

LLWM 12y ago
It's a conspicious omission for something that's being sold as "The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job".
- djur 12y ago
  I've been on exercism for a while and this is the first time I've ever heard such a claim. The headline seems to be based on this weaker remark in the article: "it could help the legions of people out there trying to learn to code well enough to land a job in this fast-growing field". And even that isn't directly based on any quote from anyone related to the site. exercism is definitely a volunteer-driven, open-source operation, and the exercises come from people willing to contribute them. I was going through the OCaml exercises and found that one of them had an error[1]; I submitted a pull request and it was accepted within hours. I think this is a case of a clickbait headline that doesn't do justice to the article nor the subject. [1] Unlike some similar sites, exercism doesn't actually build and test your submissions. This makes the site much simpler and cheaper to run, but also makes a point that simply passing the included test suite is only the first step. But it also sometimes results in sloppily-written exercises for the more marginal languages.