07-26-2003, 05:56 AM
Meg, Thanks for your vote of confidence. All my posts are based on programming experiences that I've had, and I'm quickly running out of things that could be converted to an interesting challenge.
Challenges can suffer a sudden death by the following:
1) Someone posts a very good solution, and everyone else is scared off, for some reason.
2) Someone starts an unrelated discussion in the thread of a challenge, and the challenge dies of contamination.
Assuming you get responses/solutions to your challenge, it becomes a time-consuming task of compiling and testing the submitted solutions. I've tried religiously to do this and offer good feedback.
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Challenges can suffer a sudden death by the following:
1) Someone posts a very good solution, and everyone else is scared off, for some reason.
2) Someone starts an unrelated discussion in the thread of a challenge, and the challenge dies of contamination.
Assuming you get responses/solutions to your challenge, it becomes a time-consuming task of compiling and testing the submitted solutions. I've tried religiously to do this and offer good feedback.
*****