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JavaScript challenges don’t always reflect ones skill on the language

Am i the only one to have noticed a couple of times that challenges are not about someones knowledge of the language more than his ability to make quick calculations in a relatively short amount of time?

10th Mar 2019, 12:55 PM
Drinald Varfi
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Well sir I think they make these challenges not to test someones absorption capacity( even though it's important) The main objective is what Honfu said
10th Mar 2019, 2:13 PM
UTSURO
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Being able to understand a piece of code quickly even if its messy is also part of the skill.
10th Mar 2019, 1:36 PM
HonFu
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//rather then that coding challenges includes both your ability(creativity) and your knowledge about coding. As for programmers it's good to have a sharp brain to do some interesting things
10th Mar 2019, 1:00 PM
Sudarshan Rai
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Yes I also feel like unless I use other resources and look at examples and write some code myself to solve problems, I am not really going to be good in Javascript by doing challenges alone.
11th Mar 2019, 12:28 PM
Sonic
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HonFu i have no problem with messy code, thats part of the skill, my point was about arithmetic calculations.
10th Mar 2019, 1:42 PM
Drinald Varfi
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Hm, okay, yeah, I also encountered a few riddles (in all languages) that were only about calculating a few numbers. Sort of pointless.
10th Mar 2019, 3:57 PM
HonFu
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Same is for HTML, JavaScript challenges are just arithmetic problems whereas HTML is just recalling memorised answers.
12th Mar 2019, 6:50 AM
Maninder Kaler
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