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4clojure as a babashka script
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Web app to replace 4clojure #16

Open bobbicodes opened 3 years ago

bobbicodes commented 3 years ago

I just heard that 4clojure is shutting down, and it will be exciting to launch a new learning interface to continue this great problem set. I extend my deep appreciation for everyone who worked on it, collecting programming challenges from all over and putting it into such a logical progression that helped so many of us learn Clojure.

This was the first Clojure program I ever wrote, I built it out of pure necessity because I only had a Raspberry Pi Zero and was desperate to learn some Clojure when I didn't have access to the web or even the resources to fire up a browser!

Besides setting up tooling for in-browser testing, we could think of other ways to "gamify" it. 4clojure had community solutions and code golf. At Exercism we are working on automated code analysis to offer suggested feedback on solutions that it recognizes, so this is a perfect opportunity to apply some of these things here too.

borkdude commented 3 years ago

@porkostomus There is also work in progress here by @oxalorg:

https://github.com/oxalorg/4ever-clojure

Perhaps join efforts? Perhaps this thing can live under an org where you can be both admins, etc. Maybe too early days, just an idea.

bobbicodes commented 3 years ago

Ah, that's great! Glad I was able to provide the problems in edn format, I had to extract those from their MongoDB and it was a little scary lots of fun.

I'd love to collaborate more but I'm currently without internet access, and really need to find some paying work so that I can move back to civilization (yes, it's quite a paradox). The good news is, I finally have time to study Knuth.

riotrah commented 2 years ago

Hi! Sorry to revive an old thread. Hope you were able to get yourself out of that situation @BTowersCoding.

Is this project still usable locally? Or rather, any caveats to keep in mind if I were to try it out? Quite like the cli UX personally

bobbicodes commented 2 years ago

Hi @riotrah! Yes I have not been made aware of any issues with this, though I haven't been using it much lately myself. Let me know if you run into any problems running it.

And yes, I'm happily back in the city now :)

riotrah commented 2 years ago

Glad to hear, god knows I'd be kaput without wifi. Hope it wasn't too scary.

And thanks for the prompt response, and for releasing this. Will try out! Also trying out Exercism after reading about it on your GH bio - thanks for that as well.