[merlincorey]

For me, completing the Spiral Matrix, I did not find the hint for the third and final section relate-able at all to my solution.

Essentially, it assumes a bit too much the shape of the resulting solution.

That's not to say I didn't get value from the hint, or that I think others will not - on the contrary, it is a valuable and clear hint.

The unfortunate part is just the feeling of being taken completely "out of it" in solving the solution with a slightly different approach and wondering momentarily if somehow one is wrong, even though one is passing all the tests.

The recap is also fairly lacking in content, but I imagine that is clear to you already.

Nice job on the site, generally. I only had a couple hiccups with submissions and some weird aliasing on the editor if I would edit a line before it redrew.

Edit: add some dropped words

[rhc2104]

Thanks for the feedback!

I'll think about what can be done about the last-step hint for Spiral Matrix. I guess a reason why this tutorial format is not more widespread is that it's easy for the hints to be "off".

[merlincorey]

Aye, I don't know what the solution might be, and I know the language was already couched in terms of "probably you did something like this", so it wasn't completely prescriptive.

Maybe all it will take is another sentence that basically says "or maybe you are doing something else, and that's okay too"?