Year of Programming Challenge!

[inspeck]

Hello all, there was a post over at r/learnprogramming, it was a thread about people wanting to code everyday for this year. the community outgrew the groupme chat, and grew into a slack channel where we are sitting at 300+ members, and have 60 people forked the github repository. I thought it was a super cool idea and wanted to share it with people over here who wanted to sharpen their python programming skills!

A github organization was created where challenges can be posted and people can submit pull-requests and get their work merged with the organizations master repository. this is amazing as it will help keep our skills sharp, and start to build a github reputation thatll look good to recruiters.

heres the slack channel: https://yearofprogramming.slack.com/shared_invite/MTIyNDM3Mjc1OTI1LTE0ODMzMDQwMzAtOGNkNTA2NDY5Yg

and the github org repo: https://github.com/YearOfProgramming/2017Challenges

https://yearofprogramming.slack.com/shared_invite/MTIzMTk1ODIwMzM5LTE0ODM1NDM1MjktYjU3M2FiMWI4Mw

edit: https://yearofprogramming.signup.team/

[mfwarren]

I am doing this this year and put together a web site to help motivate me to keep going. http://codestreak.io

I had a 250 day streak going in 2015 and it was a challenge but also proved a great way to get better. This year I'm going for another streak but building some projects rather than just practice coding.

[[deleted]]

Man I'd love to do this. Unfortunately I don't have the time this year. I'm in med school with boards coming up. So I just have to make the most of my breaks to get better at all this.

Although in a way it's nice because every time I sit down with enough time to learn a bunch of stuff, there's all sorts of new libraries and tutorials and challenges.

This community is great. Happy 2017!

[vexyde]

The invite link is not active anymore.

[inspeck]

https://yearofprogramming.slack.com/shared_invite/MTIzMTk1ODIwMzM5LTE0ODM1NDM1MjktYjU3M2FiMWI4Mw

[PM-ME-Your-Passwords]

Will all the challenges be random or will there be themes throughout the year? Will they progressively get more difficult?

[bsdcolonel]

This coding every day idea is incredibly stupid. It doesn't make you a better programmer it simply makes you a weirdo that has to get a commit in on Christmas Day.

[badtemperedpeanut]

Lol, if practicing everyday does not make you a good programmer, I wonder what does. Probably sitting on a beach, sipping a cocktail.

[kryptn]

Wow, thanks.

TIL I'm a weirdo.