From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T23:39:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie Advice.

On Feb 6, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Shawn W_ wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:54 AM, Shawn W_ wrote:
>>
>>> I've looked at the Ruby Quiz site but so far haven't found them
>>> easy or short enough for my liking...
>>
>> There are easy quizzes.  Look for the problems solved by many, many
>> people.  In general, those are the easier problems.  LCD Numbers and
>> pp Pascal are two examples.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> How many is many many? I do get it, but it's not something that's  
> going
> to occur to a newbie. Would be nice if there was a simple, say, three
> star indicator, easy, average, hard, or even just a simple header
> [suitable for newbie] sign at the top of each quiz, after all I would
> think beginners are a good proportion of visitors to the Ruby Quizzes,
> yes?

I've wanted to add such a rating, but it's not as easy as it sounds.   
Who decides what is a three star rating?  You and I probably differ  
on our definition of such.

James Edward Gray II