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by markbnj 4125 days ago
I'd like to see a competition called "Learn to Code Slow" that encourages people to think and design good solutions and then implement them robustly.
2 comments

Thinking is not important just press those keys as fast as you can.
And perhaps the winner is decided after the fact by a vote, based on metrics of efficiency, elegance, etc...

I'd love to see a more natural, bite-sizable, exposure to other programming languages and/or paradigms in this way.

I like this idea. That doesn't devalue the idea of being able to efficiently solve relatively simple programming challenges