From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-03-20T23:42:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Food Database (#159) On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Matthew Moss wrote: > The summary for this quiz will be posted tomorrow morning (Friday). > > I wonder... Seeing as how there was little discussion and only one > solution submitted, did y'all think this was: > > 1. Too difficult? > 2. Too time consuming? > 3. Not interesting? > 4. Other? 1 maybe 2 I would say yes 3 yes partially because we have had the Levensthein distance already in one of the v1 Quizzes 4 bad luck, happened to James too once or twice. But I guess the killer was that it was too long(2), for what my tupence (as this word is now defined on the list;) are worth maybe you could have had a split quiz, you see one week about string comparison and the next week about data caching, where everybody can use the solutions of the previous week. One could even dream about a series of quizzes that can be magically be put together to one application in a final quiz of the series. Cheers Robert > > Just curious... just trying to get a feel for what quizzes will work > and what won't. > > > -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein