Questions tagged [challenge-quality]
For questions that relate to the quality of challenges on the main site
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How to post on this site?
First time posting on Meta, while being an absolute (probably) seasoned user here. I have been posting challenges here randomly when finding time based on finding and developing my personal curiosity....
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Challenges with an oracle
There are many ideas of code-golf challenges out there that are abandoned because a part of them are just too hard to implement with a reasonable amount of effort. For instance, requiring to parse ...
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1 answer
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How can I retroactively deal with rules that turned out to make a challenge uninteresting?
I created a couple challenges recently which I was hoping would be pretty interesting, but turned into something significantly less interesting due to an oversight or regrettable rule. In De-...
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21 votes
7 answers
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Challenge post-mortems
While to-be-posted challenges get feedback in the Sandbox (ideally), we don't usually reflect on challenges after they have run. And while issues and ambiguities in challenges do get pointed out, we ...
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2 answers
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A challenge that comes with a judge program
EDIT: I simplified the challenge and posted it in the sandbox. Summary: python2/python3 compatible judge script that works on a solution's output (instead of fork/exec-ing the solution); users are ...
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12 votes
1 answer
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Should we have a new, improved matrix determinant challenge?
There is currently a challenge to compute the determinant of a matrix. However, it was written 5 years ago, before our current quality standards were established. It falls short of those standards in ...
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18 votes
3 answers
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Should we disallow non-observable requirements?
One of the more recent things to avoid that's coming up a lot is the use of non-observable requirements. The most common incarnations of this are things like "no hardcoding", "implement this algorithm"...
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1 answer
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The broken window of "Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code"
Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code is our highest-voted question. It regularly inspires newcomers to pose similar challenges, which get heavily downvoted with the poster ...
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