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by cookiem0nster 4547 days ago
Hi! congrats on your new site. I think it's a lovely effort, and very worthwhile. One piece of input, at least from my end, is to provide your users not only with the answers, but also with some elaborations on things they should / shouldn't do when writing code. This will be of course more evident when they tackle problems when they have to work with string or collections and things like that. Instilling some good principles, even just slightly, at the very beginning is something which will dividends for people learning to program just a bit down the road. Just my two cents, and once again - great job and best of luck!
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> some elaborations on things they should / shouldn't do when writing code

Hm-m-m... Not sure whether I get you right, but your hint give me the following idea:

after submitting an answer, if it is correct, the user should be able to view some editorial remarks at the results page - discussing good and bad approaches to the problem.

For example some people here used each-by-each comparison (with O(N^2) performance) to filter out non-unique words in a string instead of hashmap...

Thanks, this looks like important feature I should add!