Actually - I��ve been making good progress on Exercism (with help from Ben and Sam) - we can almost come out of alpha (but just need more exercises converted - not sure exactly what the limit is, but 22 isn��t quite enough).

I��m just tuning the tooling - and putting some bits in place so that its easier for others to help convert exercises - as well as some tools to help with mentoring (e.g. I can load snapshots of user submissions, but would love to figure out how to re-use our diff browser). I��m hoping to get a bit of input at Pharo days, to just nail it.

Anyway - if you want to try it - follow the instructions here: https://github.com/exercism/pharo-smalltalk (the top section outlines how to setup, the bottom is for contributors - but best to have tried it out first before taking that plunge).

The example that triggered this off was seeing some of the beta testers struggle with: https://github.com/exercism/pharo-smalltalk/blob/master/dev/src/Exercism/TournamentTest.class.st - a rather innocuous exercise, but actually the first one that wasn��t just an algorithmic several lines of code.

Thanks for for everyone��s input - I think I��m getting some ideas for material to put into the site, and possibly something to add to the hints for that exercise.

Tim

On 26 Mar 2019, at 14:20, Christopher Fuhrman <christopher.fuhrman@gmail.com> wrote:

Finally - I'm not familiar with exercism exercises (I signed up but saw that smalltalk is still in alpha). Is there a sneak peak of an example exercise?