What is the output: not again please

Question

C'mon, sometimes it is fun, but some languages almost have no interesting questions but guess the output ones. PHP is full of it already.

I think having too much "guess the output" questions (which is the case for most of languages here) it is not the best way for getting knowledge from challanges.

We should just try to be more creative with questions about syntax, functions and other nice stuff, that's my opinion.

Answer 1

@Will, the real problem is that most of them are only matematichal questions, in most cases you can answer without any knowledge about the programming language.

Unfortunately, there are too much challenges like this, so... i prefer the challenges in HTML, because i have to know the rules of HTML itself, because HTML has no output, and because i like it. (〜￣△￣)〜

In short, Math is important... Output is useful for "open your mind to think", but there are many awesome things in a programming language, not just "++x" & "x++"

I'm sleepy, so... if my English is bad, don't kill me =^=

Answer 2

The really awesome stuff about the languages don't make it to the challenges because
- too specific
- community downvotes
- too general
(Comments on declined quizzes from SoloLearn)
I guess too specific means too hard and too general that it's just common knowledge.
Ppl keep submitting those math quizzes, because the chances to get them approved are good.

Answer 3

You're right, @Tashi. But well, i think you'd learn more with specific questions, then with the same guess the output again and again, that's just training your math and speed about guessing results. Yes it is necessary, but could be even greater if the balance had the same weight at both sizes

Answer 4

haha, that's what i mean, @Maz. It is necessary, but people kill the feeling of the challanges, just by making "guess the output" ones all the time. It would be a lot better if they were like HTML ones, and fewer guess the output.