Do you believe that taking challenges in SoloLearn is a good way of gaining experience?

Question

Assume the risk of loosing already already earn xps.

Answer 1

Wow, I love the answer.

Answer 2

It Is beneficial till you take it as revising your knowledge and practice (not as a xp greed)

And don't fear to loose because challenge makes us tough and helps to know our mistake and everyone looses but winners are those who don't backaway.
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Answer 3

well but some questions are pretty bad. sometimes it looks like they want you to practice counting more than coding. plus a lot of questions repeats not in an exactly smart way. there is definitely space for improvement.

Answer 4

@P R you r right
But I want to confess that I sometimes leave challenges incomplete when I am loosing....
I will try to keep this in mind...

Answer 5

You r right pr

Answer 6

challenges are too boring, SoloLearn must implement some kind of code "katas" instead...

Answer 7

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/549257/?ref=app

Answer 8

yes it is. because we may get bored without challenges so we may leave the course

Answer 9

I feel challenges here are good to understand and clear basic concepts. Once you learn them through challenges, you should start to solve coding problems
where you can apply your learnings. This will eventually help you in gaining experience.

Answer 10

They're helpful for memorization and practice as long as you understand what you did wrong when you look at the correct answers. I guess questions that you've seen multiple times can serve as reminders, but they start to get dull after a while.

Answer 11

So I received a Java challenge from @SoloLearn yesterday. I had not engaged in challenges because 1) I knew nothing about how they worked and 2) all I read left me feeling it was mostly about getting XP.

So I thought I would give it a try. First how it works:

You are presented with some code (Java for example.) Then with a question about the code (much like in the tutorials.) You are given a short time to answer the question before it times out and moves on (each question is a 'round' and there are five rounds.)

Here is my take on the pros and cons:

Pros:

I like the idea of being asked questions and trying to figure out the code so as to answer.

Cons:

You can't go back and review the questions or a type of the question for that matter. For example, a question on how many times a while loop will execute.

The time is too short, if I am not sure what the answer is, I want to look it up and see if I can figure it out. I don't find the timeout conducive to learning. It does seem XP centric ☹️

Answer 12

yes it is... and it is also a funny way of learning and gaining experience...

Answer 13

Yes ,I enjoy it,the challenges make much funny in my learning!