Hoping you can help

I have a quick question for you.

Hi this is John with this week’s Coding Challenge.

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I’m hoping you can help. I have a question for you…

Almost every week someone reaches out and asks if I’ve thought of gamifying Coding Challenges and suggests adding automated tests and a leaderboard.

And the answer is yes, yes I have, I just haven’t had the time to whilst I’ve focused on creating a diverse set of coding challenges, with projects ranging from command line tools, through systems software to programming language interpreters.

So my question for you is this:

Should I focus on writing more challenges or should I focus on building the infrastructure to provide automated tests and a leaderboard?

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I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards, John

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