From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T02:26:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Quiz - Degree of Difficulty

"Louis J Scoras" <louis.j.scoras@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/17/06, Jon Egil Strand <jes@luretanker.no> wrote:
>
>> A good indication is the number of quiz-solutions. The 'easier' ones are
>> usually more popular.
>
> I agree. This is probably a pretty good starting metric.
> Consequently, be sure to check out the quiz for pretty printing
> pascal's triangle (#84).  If I recall correctly, that problem was the
> most popular quiz to date.

Just don't expect that all of the *solutions* to a solution-heavy quiz
will be on the easier-to-understand side.  Especially on something
like pp pascal, some of the solvers got silly and decided to show off
(e.g. Kelly Norton's solution, or my third, de-optimized solution)

-- 
s=%q(  Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]       )
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]