[Boost-users] exercism.io -- crowd-sourced mentorship C++ track online

Subject: [Boost-users] exercism.io -- crowd-sourced mentorship C++ track online
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-19 21:14:30

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Hi Boost-ers,

Katrina Owens has created <http://exercism.io>, a web site designed
to help programmers get better at their craft through crowd-sourced
mentorship.  The whole thing is free and open source and all you need
to participate is a github account.

I have contributed a basic set of completed exercises to enable the
C++ language track.  I would love for people from the boost community
to participate in the C++ track.  I had fun doing the initial set of
exercises.  Most of them could be completed in under 20 minutes,
although the intention is that they increase in difficulty as you
progress through them.

For each exercise you are presented with the problem statement and a set
of Boost.Test unit tests.  The goal is to get a program that achieves
the function and is expressive and readable.  First you get all the
tests passing in order to achieve the desired function, but then revise
the code to get it to be more expressive and idiomatic in the language.
It's that last part where the crowd-sourced mentorship comes into play
-- once you've submitted your solution for a problem to the website,
you'll be able to view the solutions other people have submitted for
the same exercise in the same language.  You can mentor them in how to
write more expressive, idiomatic C++11 code.  Who knows, maybe you'll
also improve your C++11 skills by reading feedback from others on your
submissions.

Feel free to comment here or file an issue on the exercism.io github
repository <http://github.com/exercism/exercism.io> if you think the
C++ track needs more or better instructions or helpful links.
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