Andy Smith

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• Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
  The video of Lance solving challenge 74 from scratch with tests was ver useful for newbies I thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM0TTQZaZ2Q https://lancewicks.com/2020/08/22/perl-weekly-challenge-74/...

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• Matthew Persico commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  Wait? You think that the point of these challenges is to make people feel they "are not smart enough"?

• Martin McGrath commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges

  The point of perl weekly challenges is quite well defined on their site. None of it is intentionally designed to make people feel bad about not being able to tackle a challenge.

  The barrier for participation is what, able to use some git at a fairly basic level, understand the particular challenge (if you are unfamiliar with the topic in question this needs research on your part), figuring out an approach, applying that in perl, rinse and repeat until you have something that achieves the goal. That doesn't seem unreasonable, since that is what a great deal of programming/problem sol…