Solving coding challenges

Question

Why can't i understand and solve code challenges?😕i tried so many times but i really couldn't understand any single thing🥺

Answer 1

Eldana ,

it would be helpful, if you could do this:

> give the name of a code coach exercise that causes you problems. also mention the programming language you are going to use.

> post your code or link it here.

> give a short description of what exactly creates you headaches

Answer 2

Are you talking about code coach problems or code challenges?

Answer 3

Eldana You should start with easy code problems, just sort out the problems by easy level via the option in top left corner.

Furthermore, if you face any issue in solving a particular code coach, you can ask here in q/a discussion forum as @Lothar mentioned with appropriate tags and discription about your problem.

Answer 4

The problem is that sololearn doesn’t really teach how to code. It just teaches syntax and what variables, functions, etc are. But actually working through a problem isn’t taught here. Also, you aren’t taught methods. I remember when i first tried to code coaches (back when they were available for iOs users) I worked really hard trying to reverse a string. I had to think of a really out of the box solution that didn’t even solve all the problems. I was frustrated because it was marked as easy and I couldn’t do it. Turns out it’s as simple as splitting the string and then array.reverse() and then array.join()But this isn’t taught anywhere in sololearn. Also, it is marked as easy because in python you just need to do string[::-1] but in javascript it takes the three steps i outlined earlier.
I reccomend taking some other coding course to actually learn how to code before attempting the code coaches. Think of sololearn as a great first step in your coding jouney but definitely not the sole source.

Answer 5

Eldana so are you hoing to try to learn how to actually code and learn how to put to use what you learned here?

Answer 6

Code coach problems and i am learning python

Answer 7

Yes i guess...but couldn't understand on how put to use what i have learned