Chris Strom summarizes a good portion of the feedback he gave to entrants in this year’s Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies:
I recently had the privilege to supply the challenge for the second ever Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies. I thought it pretty cool that the challenge provoked 40+ “newbies” to submit responses. As one might expect, there was some rough Ruby, but very few butcherings of the language.
In the spirit of the code review, I tried to provide constructive feedback to all participants. Following is a summary of some common suggestions that I had to offer…
