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Update config.json to match new specification #125
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Thanks for the incredibly clear goal, @kytrinyx. This is a great enhancement to exercism! |
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First step in transitioning from "problems" to "exercises". Part of exercism#125.
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We've met the letter of this issue: we're using the new structure. Additionally, we actually have a first cut at the difficulty. We'll address topics as that concept becomes more fleshed-out. |
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Tasks:
config.json
exercises
instead ofproblems
Context:
For the past three years, the ordering of exercises has been done based on gut feelings and wild guesses. As a result, the progression of the exercises has been somewhat haphazard.
In the past few months maintainers of several tracks have invested a great deal of time in analyzing what concepts various exercises require, and then reordering the tracks as a result of that analysis.
It would be useful to bake this data into the track configuration so that we can adjust it over time as we learn more about each exercise.
To this end, we've decided to add a new key exercises in the config.json file, and deprecate the
problems
key.See exercism/discussions#60 for details about this decision.
Note that we will not be removing the
problems
key at this time, as this would break the website and a number of tools.The process for deprecating the old
problems
array will be:In the new format, each exercise is a JSON object with three properties:
a list of common topics at https://github.com/exercism/x-common/blob/master/TOPICS.txt. Do not feel like you need to restrict yourself to this list;
it's only there so that we don't end up with 20 variations on the same topic. Each
language is different, and there will likely be topics specific to each language that will
not make it onto the list.
The difficulty rating can be a very rough estimate.
The topics array can be empty if this analysis has not yet been done.
Example:
It may be worth making the change in several passes:
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