Hi Aleksandra, On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Aleksandra Pawlik <[email protected]> wrote: > Exercism.io came up in the discussion about lesson package manager and > solutions to kind of pick'n'mix of training materials. They have a > similar mechanism (I think). It's just a bit buried under "the > crowd-sourced mentorship". But I think this explains more: > http://help.exercism.io/fetching-exercises.html
I see exercism.io as good for practicing and learning about how to receive and give code review, but I don't think it is a good fit for the lesson package manager. For a self-learning experience I would suggest workshopper [1], but it also exactly what the lesson package manager is aiming for. > Essentially, learners install a client which allows them to fetch > exercises and submit their responses. The exercises and training > materials are for a variety of subjects and the community for each > subjects develops the materials separately. I haven't had much time to > have a closer look but maybe it is of relevance to what SWC is trying > to do? > > Not sure if this is of any use but may potentially be worth exploring. I've tried the initial exercises some time ago. I think this kind of approach is a nice complement and a good way to practice what students learn in the workshops, but the exercises usually don't explain much and it might be hard to cross the barrier from starting an exercise, making it work and submitting it before having any feedback (it is my understanding that you can't submit something that is not working and ask for feedback). The community seems to be supportive, I got good feedback and other people were also grateful for mine. Cheers, Luiz [1]: https://github.com/rvagg/workshopper _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
