Add a post exercise document / page

Exercism
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I think it would be good to show students a page / document when they finish a solution.

This page could:

  • Discus common pitfalls / code quality issues (that can’t be caught be the analyser)
  • Discuss various ways of solving the exercise and the trade offs of each method
  • Signpost the exemplar solution
  • Signpost interesting community solutions
  • Ask you to comment on a couple of existing solutions
  • Probably some other stuff

I find it a bit unsatisfying finishing a solution at the moment. Viewing community solutions can be good, but you never quite know if you are seeing a good solution, and you never know if you have seen the full range of possible solutions.

Also, very few community solutions have any comments / ratings / stars at the moment, and I think it would be good to drive more interaction on this.

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I think many of these points would also be great in this discussion, where we’re floating ideas/suggestions for improvement to the finish exercise modal and the exercise page.

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@ceddlyburge Are you aware of Approach documents (docs) / the Dig Deeper tab (example)?

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Thanks Matthijs, the approach documents (which are inside the dig deeper tab I think), get some of the way there.

I still think that there is more to do, and the exercises I’ve completed / authored don’t have any dig deeper stuff, so maybe making it compulsory would help.

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Correct, they are two names for essentially the same thing.

Please ping me when you start working on this. I am writing Haskell Approaches; maybe we can combine work.

Compulsory for student or for exercise authors?

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Thanks Matthijs. I assume that the haskell and elm tracks are relatively similar, at least for the simpler exercises, so this could work well. I think I’m going to focus on the concept exercises for now, and then circle back and add approaches and analyser rules afterwards, so I’ll get in touch then.
Cheers, Cedd