In the Python track there is an excersise called Alphametics. You cannot use Excersism’s editor to do this, and have to install an editor or something like that. You have to go to github to do this. KIDS USE EXCERSISM. As one of them, I cannot complete the Pythin track because of this tiny little huge snag. Please make it so that you do not have to use github. Thank you!
It’s unclear what’s the issue. Are you having trouble installing and running the Exercism CLI? Or is this about setting up Python locally?
Alphametics isn’t solvable in the web editor for some tracks because it takes too long to run in a lot of cases. The test runner only gets 20 seconds to run your code from start to finish before reporting the code as timed out.
Could you share which step requires using GitHub?
Maybe the complaint is because there is no warning about the need to optimize for execution speed? This is not a Python problem, as @BNAndras already pointed out.
This is one of the few exercises with "test_runner": false in .meta/config.json
csharp alphametics
csharp palindrome-products
fsharp alphametics
fsharp palindrome-products
kotlin bank-account
python alphametics
ruby robot-name
Students are directed to use the CLI, and for Linux/Windows this currently involves a download from github.com
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The issue is that a lot of kids have their computers on lockdown (i’m one of them) and i’m sure our parents would not allow github.com on our computers because you can store, like ANYTHING on github, including viruses, porn, etc. This is the only excersise that is keeping me from finishing the python course, and my dad won’t allow github for me because of the reasons it is blocked in the first place :)
The solution is likely to talk to your parents and ask them if they could do the administrative work for you.
You can use any plaintext editor for coding in Python, there is no requirement to go to github to obtain one.
Presuming you’re on windows, I believe this link will work to install the Exercism CLI without needing a github account: https://github.com/exercism/windows-installer/releases/download/v1.5.3/ExercismCLIInstaller.exe
This may not help them directly if they are not allowed to go to github.com as this is a link to the same restricted resource.
But hopefully they can give that information to the administrator of their machine (presumably the same parents that blocked access) to solve the issue.