FeymanFan78

Joined 11 years ago

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Physics undergrad turned Computer Scientist. Currently applications developer in .net environment. Enjoy Math, Science, Programming and Music. Besides applications interested in learning more about WebGL and other graphics libraries.
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Comment · 11 years ago
Music consisting of playing lead guitar in a band. Learning Voice, Drums and Piano as well. Have goal of performing live acoustically on guitar and vocals.
Comment · 11 years ago
I agree that Calculus is a more readily applicable mathematics that easily applied to many things. It really bothers me when people downplay the usefulness of Calculus also the person that posted the fundamental concepts of Linear Algebra are generally a little beyond the Grasp of people that haven't even been through the Rigors of Calculus 1 - Calculus 3.
Comment · 11 years ago
I like this idea. That doesn't devalue the idea of being able to efficiently solve relatively simple programming challenges
Comment · 11 years ago
Ex. large standard deviation wide bell curve would mean there is a major disparity among the understanding of a concept for developers that use the site. A small standard deviation and tight bell curve would represent a more consistent understanding level among the sample population. I am assuming time being the main metric. You could also use the code quality as a metric also.
Comment · 11 years ago
Cool. Thank you for your reply. On the layout etc. I think it is great work. I was just ready to test my skills or lack thereof, lol. You know if the synchronous competition proves to be tough you could log metrics for certain exercises and use statistics like standard deviation etc. so people can now how they stack up to everyone else. This may also shed some light on the relative difficulty of certain exercises for the population as a whole.
Comment · 11 years ago
It seems like a cool concept. However I would like to see it have some type of functionality. Am I missing something. This appears to be a demo to me. As such I feel a little bit duped that it doesn't make it abundantly clear that it is just a demo.

If I was a VC I would be frustrated that this does not at least have some type of simulation even if you don't have the multi-user competition working yet. At least coding against a clock or virtual opponents would be a nice touch. To me this is not proof of concept but just a story board if you will, good marketing. I am sorry to be harsh but I hate going somewhere with the promise or implication of one thing and then getting something different.

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