make more problems for beginners

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Ivan Vanko     2022-02-26 16:44:43

I like your site.Please make more problems and categorize them especially make more beginners problems.

Rodion (admin)     2022-02-26 22:28:46
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Ivan, Hi! Thanks for your kind words, and for spending some time to try these problems.

There are quite enough beginner-level tasks, I think - perhaps so many that it is bit dull to solve them. But you are right, probably we need to refresh tags for many of them lack beginners mark. Still current list is here:

Problems tagged simple

I shall try to refine it to include more recently added tasks.

Rodion (admin)     2022-03-15 08:35:01
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Ooops, link above was broken. Now fixed, sorry.

Small update on this - yesterday tried to refine "Volumes" idea. Initial problem with it arose due to too many categories, somewhat intersecting. It's original form still could be found on the site along with its more "historical" look.

Volumes were changed to "tags" years ago (I remember though some colleagues said it's change to worse).

Now 5 of tags are picked as "volumes" and tags refreshed so every task falls into exactly some single volume. Buttons for quick filtering now are above task list:

Simple  -  Implementation  -  Popular Algorithms  -  Puzzles  -  Special

And page for Volumes in menu above leads to this list with short descriptions.

There are roughly equal amount of tasks (close to 50) in every volume.

Any suggestions are welcome, though I feel few large categories should work better than many small. For smaller other tags shall work as always.

Vadim Pelyushenko     2022-03-15 09:05:38
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I see that this thread is old but... @Ivan Vanko - codingbat.com is a decent collection of beginner problems.

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