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Walkthrough of "Parallel Letter Frequency" in Elixir (Blog Post + Video) #6

Closed percygrunwald closed 5 years ago

percygrunwald commented 5 years ago

I think the "Parallel Letter Frequency" problem would be a good one for the blog because it shows off the built-in tooling for parallelization of tasks, which is a very "sexy" feature of Elixir.

I can write a blog post and make a video of me solving the problem from Exercism. I have already done this for around 10 of the problems on the Exercism Elixir track: e.g. "Tournament" (video showing solution + article explaining solution).

Would be nice to embed the video at the top of the blog post. Is there a shortcode available to allow for embedding a YouTube video?

Thanks!

iHiD commented 5 years ago

Hey @percygrunwald! Thanks for following up on the tweet! :)

We've been really excited by your videos so far and I've wanted to connect to see how we can booster what you're doing. Over the next few months we're going to be adding "show how to solve X" articles into Exercise that appear as part of a student's workflow. I'd definitely love to include some of your videos on those!

In the meantime, though, a blog post would be awesome. I don't know about the code for embedding the video, but if you put together the blog post we can work it out at the end! :)

Any questions, let me know, and if you want any Exercism graphics etc for the video, please ping @nicolechalmers here and she can sort you out :)

percygrunwald commented 5 years ago

@iHiD sounds great!

Just a few questions that you or @nicolechalmers might be able to answer before I get started:

  1. Do you have any editorial guidance or requests for the blog post?
  2. Are my example articles approximately what you're looking for, or would you like me to include more of a preamble about Exercism or Elixir?
  3. Do you have any guidance about how the video should be edited or how you'd like the Exercism branding to be shown in the video?
  4. Can I have my "TopTechSkills.com" branding at the start and end of the video as I usually do?

Finally, @nicolechalmers if you could link me to any vector versions of the Exercism branding, that would be awesome. I'll take a look at what's available and see how/where I can display it best.

Thanks!

kytrinyx commented 5 years ago

This has turned into a really great 3-part series. We're still in the process of actually shipping them, but it feels like this issue has outlived it's usefulness 🎉