Re: Easy/Expert quizzes

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bill Smith wrote:

> This group has a shortage of "Easy" quizzes.  Most of the "Expert"
> quizzes are difficult because they require expertise in the problem
> domain.  If we allowed (even encouraged) early posting of "Spoiler"
> design information, far more of us could participate by producing perl
> implementations.  Yes, there are a lot of details to work out if there
> is interest in this approach.

Surely the point of the spoiler time limit is to let people crack on with
their design, so a range of strategies are seen, without being distracted
down a maybe more obvious path ?  There's nothing to stop anyone posting a
solution after the next week's quiz has been posted or after the official
summariser has posted, if they either think their way is
different/better/creative, nor to post it and ask for critique.  In fact,
some people do this already.  I think I prefer the current situation,
though maybe there is a demand for qotw-algorithms-discuss, less code,
more maths, geeking off at a different tangent ?


the hatter