1) There's an interesting little history regarding DEV, Medium, and FreeCodeCamp. In short, FreeCodeCamp used to live on Medium, and they'd often share reposted content from DEV with linkbacks. Then, when they migrated, they (inadvertently, I hope?) lost the backlinks. As a result, the DEV authors whose articles got "migrated" are/were understandably a bit annoyed. I don't know what ultimately happened on this.
2) CodinGame is hands down the best programming challenge site I've seen! It's got a level of polish that all the others lack.
3) I recommend caution with Codewars. Not one day into joining that community, I discovered there is an intensely elitist undercurrent, which I wound up on the wrong end of. I had dared to point out that a test had a probable error because, although the runtime expected output and runtime actual output matched, the test had failed (all others passed). I was summarily mocked and belittled by no less than half a dozen people within ten minutes, who attacked both my character and my intelligence (without even so much as a reference to the problem I'd brought up). I deleted my account.
4) DEV is excellent for Q&A too! See the #help and #discuss tags.
A few thoughts from little 'ol me:
1) There's an interesting little history regarding DEV, Medium, and FreeCodeCamp. In short, FreeCodeCamp used to live on Medium, and they'd often share reposted content from DEV with linkbacks. Then, when they migrated, they (inadvertently, I hope?) lost the backlinks. As a result, the DEV authors whose articles got "migrated" are/were understandably a bit annoyed. I don't know what ultimately happened on this.
2) CodinGame is hands down the best programming challenge site I've seen! It's got a level of polish that all the others lack.
3) I recommend caution with Codewars. Not one day into joining that community, I discovered there is an intensely elitist undercurrent, which I wound up on the wrong end of. I had dared to point out that a test had a probable error because, although the runtime expected output and runtime actual output matched, the test had failed (all others passed). I was summarily mocked and belittled by no less than half a dozen people within ten minutes, who attacked both my character and my intelligence (without even so much as a reference to the problem I'd brought up). I deleted my account.
4) DEV is excellent for Q&A too! See the
#helpand#discusstags.Also, AMEN TO #5!
Awesome additions! Stuff like this is why I write.
Nice catch on the elitism of Codewars. That's definitely something to be aware of (as I haven't tried it myself).