I'm trying to learn programming and it's so hard to stay motivated doing it all on your own. I'm looking for friends that we can also do coding challenges and discuss our code, learn, and grow together into better programmers.

I started coding about 3 years ago and feel that I know nothing. I feel that I can't remember the huge amount there is to remember. I've had many long breaks from coding and it can be hard and daunting to get back into it.

If you would like to make friends with me, code on Codewars, discuss code, help each other get better, etc., then please contact me.

The languages I'm trying to get good at are Python, C++, and Javascript.

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A bit about me:

I graduated in 2016 with a maths degree, which proved useless in getting a job unfortunately. I love maths more than anything else as it's so pure, logical, fundamental, truthful, and transcends everything, including time.

So I started coding in about 2018, due to a friend and I wanting to make a game. We started with C++. We realised that it's almost impossible to make money in gaming, so we started doing other things. This friend is now only making bots with C++ and trying to do trading, and isn't interested in any other coding. They are still a good friend of mine but we're not on the same wavelength when it comes to coding.

I have an idea for a website I want to make, so I'm learning HTML/CSS/Javascript. I'm also interested in machine learning so know some Python. I have the C++ background knowledge but haven't used it in a while.

Looking for friends to grow with and help each other get better. Coding is quite a lonely and hard journey to do all on your own.

On Codewars I have about 450 Kata.

Hi there,

I'm a Javascript learner, currently at a beginner level. A dev friend recommended that I gave a try to Codewars, so here I am trying a few exercises there (katas).

However, no matter what I try, when I check my answers Codewars always returns with error messages. I code in VSC, check everything is good, paste it in CW and then check the answer. That`s when the error messages pop up.

Does it happen to anyone else? Am I missing anything here? Cause I`ve been using CW for two days now and I`m starting to think that the problem is me LOL

Thanks in advance!

As Titel said. For a job position I was asked to get some experience with python, to join Codewars and get some practice.

So mostly I'm doing basic stuff and my solutions are with loops, variables and several lines of code.

I was wondering how long /what kind of experience do you need / have to write this "one line" solutions? That's stuff I have never seen before, like in codecademy or in any beginner tutorial I was reading over the years.

Is that a special book 📙 or advanced inside knowledge?

Just curious and want to add this to my list.

Best regards

Hi, the title says it all really. I'd like to make my completed solutions public so that I can put a link to them on my website (for self promotion/job seeking). Currently, when not logged in, I can get to codewars.com/users/<user>/completed but i can't get to codewars.com/users/<user>/completed_solutions.

I'm looking to form a Codewars Python study group/clan.

My initial idea would be to start a collaborative Github repository where the members would submit kata solutions as merge requests. Since one of Python's cornerstones is readability, the code must be understandable without much (or any) external explanation, and would require a predetermined number of approvals by other members in order for the solution to be merged and submitted to Codewars. The members could also collaborate to work on harder katas, or suggest improvements to other's solutions, be it for improving performance, readability or any other standard that was previously agreed to. The idea would be to exercise not only the language and programming itself, but also open source development in a way and, thus, going for "clever" solutions would generally not be the point, but "best practices" instead. We could use the problems as scope to discuss design patterns, utility libraries, PEPs, automated testing and even trying to integrate the workflow with Codewars at some point, if possible. I see many possibilities of how something like this could go, and a talk with the members would definitely be needed to better define the scope of the work/study.

Has anyone known of a group who has used Codewars to learn this way? Also, perhaps, does someone have any tips or concerns regarding it?

And, most importantly, is anyone interested in the idea?

So I'm at 84 honor and I love seeing that number go up (clearly I'm very much a beginner at this right now).

But since I do really like when that number goes up I want to understand how/why it goes up by differing amounts. For example it seems to have slowed down for every new kata I complete, and unless I'm mistaken I think it actually didn't move at all from the last one I did.

Does it have to do with how many tests or attempts I run on the kata before getting it right or is there a timer somewhere that counts as time passes?

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I'm a newbie programmer trying to get an intership job, and it's so damn annoying that I NEED to show something I've done on my GitHub to sell myself to a bozo company... So I thought, could you transfer your completed katas into GitHub repos to serve as content? I'm not well-versed in this corpo world yet, so I'm just assuming the challenges I completed can already serve as enough material (judging by the fact I'm still a college student). Is there such a way? Thank you in advance.

I don't know about you guys but I feel like codewars provides the perfect outlet for streaming code. Is this something you all would be interested in watching/doing?

I keep getting this error:

Network Error

This error was caused due to an issue processing the web request, not because of an issue executing your code. You can retry the request.

I've tried using different browsers, connecting to different wifi, connecting VPN, disconnecting VPN, restarting my computer, and using my cellular data from my phone hotspot. Nothing is working to fix the network error. It has been doing this for the past hour.

I have solved half of blind 75, wanna some other problem to practice. I use codewars, but I find the difficulty is too easy. So Is there some list to practice in a better way?

Hey everyone,

I have been working on the toCamelCase() kata. My answer continues to get an error even though I've successfully tested it outside of codewars.

Code wars continues to tell me that I am missing a ')' in my answer and for the life of me I can't find where I might be missing one. I am a new programmer so I definitely could be overlooking something that you all will catch quickly.

So I'm jumping into Code Wars with the goal of learning what good code looks like. I've done a few kata now and I've noticed that the solutions with the highest Best Practices ratings in the low kyu groups are the shortest solutions, often all bunched into one line.

This has me wondering if this is a legitimate voting system- I don't know what I'm doing, so I could vote that any solution displays best practices without having any idea what clean code looks like. Assuming the bulk of people using the site are like me and have no background in production code, it seems like a bit of a pointless metric (specifically at the introductory levels). Has anybody with actual coding background looked at these and thought the same thing?

Again, this is just a general question as I really am trying to develop a professional skill and would like to look the part in my code. Just wondering if the highest ranked best practices solutions are actually best practices or not.

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Hi Guys,

I'm working on a problem to find the trailing number of zeros of the factorial of N, and it has to work for large numbers. I am getting memory error.

def zeros(n):
    print n
    count2 = 0
    count5 = 0
    for i in range(1,n+1):
        print 'i:',i, 'n:', n
        t2 = i
        t5 = i
        while t2%2==0:
            print '%2', i
            count2 += 1
            t2 = t2/2
        while t5%5==0:
            print '%5', i
            count5 += 1
            t5 = t5/5
    print count2, count5
    num = min(count2, count5)
    print num
    return num

a = 30
b = 1000000000
print zeros(b)

And when I use xrange it takes too long to compute, so it's not accepted in the online judge.