What's your opinion about introducing some coding challenges to PM?

I see in cb people writing about participating in this or that challenge elsewhere, and I have also signed up to one. It is obviously a stir as most of us need a challenge.

There are many practical problems. e.g. whose server should the submissions be run? and should there be an IDE online?

I say, host codes to github and force a template: a Makefile and some test and benchmark files. All we need to submit here would be a test/benchmarks score obtained when running our code on our computers. Regarding efficiency benchmarks, we can make them relative (therefore comparable) to say the time it took the same computer+OS to sort a long list.

Just an idea to fight the brain-drain

bw, bliako

In reply to Coding challenges to PM by bliako

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