Closed petertseng closed 5 years ago
Consider also some previous guidance:
https://github.com/exercism/discussions/issues/175#issue-244918424
A great core exercise:
- is different from all the other core exercises
- has many possible approaches/solutions
Eventually we would like to make it so that a track broadly covers the language features and standard library
A search for "core" in this repository has a few hints, mainly https://github.com/exercism/docs/blob/master/about/conception/progression.md#meaningful-and-flexible-linear-progression-in-exercism
A very important portion of that text seems to be "For a student learning a completely new programming language, completing the 10-20 core exercises would give students confidence that they've touched on the full range of key concepts" - this statement gives an overarching purpose that should drive the design of the track core.
I now have what I came for, so I'm going to close this issue immediately on filing. If you think it could be more prominently documented elsewhere and/or expanded on, you're free to discuss that.