Practice Makes Perfect
- Posted by admin on January 26th, 2007 filed in java, javascript, python, ruby
Its always good to hone your programming skills outside of your usual day-to-day job with a selection of different challenges. That's why I've compiled a list of games, quizes and challenge sites for programmers which are useful for any language.
Created by Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers this is a regular blog posting of challenges with a variety of skill levels and challenging various areas. Well worth a look.
Relatively new but already one of the best open challenge sites on the net. With a good selection and growing rapidly it promises to be great for beginners and advanced coders alike.
Based on the Perl quizzes of old the Ruby Quiz has been going a while now and relies on quiz submissions by members of the mailing list which are then compiled and sent out with a time limit on solving it and responding with the answer. All the past challenges are available on the site.
Not quite as nicely organised and well documented as the Ruby Quiz as this provides challenges for Python programmers in a series of ever-increasing difficulty.
One of the oldest and best especially for oldschool challenges and core algorithm programming using lower level languages like C, C++, Java, etc.
If anyone knows of any others then please leave a comment and I'll add it to the list.
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