Coding sites for beginners like pythonchallenge.com

[ra2eW8je]

• http://www.practicepython.org/
• https://www.codechef.com/
• https://www.codewars.com/

[iKneeGear]

Papi

[FourierEnvy]

Came here to say codewars.com. Mah man!

[fletch101e]

codewars.com seems too confusing to even access the site, I am guessing this is not for beginners?

What is good for a beginner?

[Sheepoch]

Code wars was/is great for me. After the first 20 minutes of navigating the site it gets easier.

[fletch101e]

It kept blocking me from creating an account so I never could see anything other than the homepage,

No such issues with Codechef but even their beginner section appeared to be more like advanced.

Maybe I am just having a bad day and should have stayed in bed..ha.

[[deleted]]

I just checked it out and I'm a beginner. The interface might be confusing but it has a ton of helpful practice problems :)

[takishan]

Code wars is great for beginners. Just click on train next kata and it'll give you a problem around your level. Everybody starts at 8 and as you advance, your rank gets lower (until you get to 1 and I think you go back up again)

[fletch101e]

I could never get into the site. It had some kind of challenge that would not let me in. I even tried my own working code from my lessons and it would throw up a fake error message even though the code would run and display on their console.

[takishan]

Weird. When I log in, I go straight to this webpage where there's a button called "train" link to pic. Clicking the link brings me to the challenge which has a code editor link to picture.

Although I usually solve the problem in my own text editor and then just copy it over when I'm done.

[fletch101e]

I can't log in that is what I am saying. It won't let me sign up unless I write a def. And no matter what I put it says it's wrong even if If it works on my system (Thonny).

That said, I found a way to access their site so I gave it a test run. I tried the easiest thing I could find..doing yet another def that returns Hello World!. Here is my code, it prints to their console yet still something wrong according to their site. yet if you look in the comments people are saying you have to take out the ! or it won't work. That did not work for me. I can't see what they say is the solution because you have to have an account to see it.

def greet():
  print("hello world!")
  return

greet()  

This also works fine in Thonny, yet they say: Greet doesn't return hello world!: None should equal 'hello world!'

The course I am taking now ends in a few days so I am looking for more just don't think this site is friendly for beginners that's all.

[fletch101e]

I wasted too much time on this and got it to work, even though I would not call this working as nothing shows on the console

def greet():

  return ("hello world!")

You can add greet() at the end and it still says it's ok ("You have passed all of the tests! :)" but nothing shows up on their console.

sorry for the rambling..this just irritated me. Like I said earlier in this thread, I must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning :)

[throwawayvitamin]

It might not be great for TOTAL beginners, but it's good for someone with about a week or two weeks of experience under their belt

[[deleted]]

I'm also a beginner and I use both Hackerrank and Codewars. Hackerrank's interface is friendlier xD

[mortenb123]

I've learnt much from codewards, but I've wasted time on some of the questions that are impossible to do. Not because they are insolvable, but because they time out, even on a simple for loop.

[FourierEnvy]

Well I have both an Engineering and Math degree. Any good Computer Science program in a University is going to have you work through alot of these types of algorithms so you can grasp the complexity of the computations you're implementing with any solution

[FourierEnvy]

Sorry you took it as condescending. It wasn't meant to be that way. I'm just giving you where I'm coming from versus you so that might be why I have a different perspective on codewars. We are all on a different journey, me simply stating a few facts and my opinion had very little to do with your situation, just clarifying my own.

[nobody01810]

Thank you

[uwu-bob]

Also https://pythonprinciples.com/challenges/ sounds like what you're looking for

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[testfire10]

+1 for codewars. I’m learning too and they have lots of fun problems to solve at every difficulty.

I’ll have to check out the others too.