{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions/issues/39","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions/issues/39/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions/issues/39/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions/issues/39/events","html_url":"https://github.com/exercism/discussions/issues/39","id":161347440,"number":39,"title":"Quality over quantity of exercises?","user":{"login":"Cohen-Carlisle","id":6425580,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6425580?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle","html_url":"https://github.com/Cohen-Carlisle","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Cohen-Carlisle/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":12,"created_at":"2016-06-21T04:31:28Z","updated_at":"2016-07-27T18:45:49Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've noticed a number of very similar exercises have been reported lately. exercism/x-common/issues/276 shows 4 exercises that implement different numerical bases (2,3,8,16). exercism/x-common/issues/268 reports that protein-translation and nucleotide-codons exercises are the same. There are still more examples, like (food-chain, beer-song, and twelve-days), or (nth-prime and sieve) or (accumulate and list-ops). You get the idea.\r\n\r\nI've also noticed that the activity per exercise in the Ruby track drops off pretty fast. Visual here:\r\n![ruby-activity](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6425580/16217930/2d16ded2-3746-11e6-8e4d-eefe6dbc3c52.png)\r\n\r\n@IanWhitney also caught my attention when he made PR exercism/xrust/pull/137 to reorder the exercises to more uniformly increase difficulty and focus on not introducing a lot of new concepts at once.\r\n\r\nTaken together, I think re-ordering and reduction of exercise duplication would really improve things for the exercist. The hard part, of course, is figuring out the right order and what's duplicated."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions/issues/comments/235681450","html_url":"https://github.com/exercism/discussions/issues/39#issuecomment-235681450","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/exercism/discussions/issues/39","id":235681450,"user":{"login":"c1505","id":6599077,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6599077?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505","html_url":"https://github.com/c1505","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/c1505/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-07-27T18:45:49Z","updated_at":"2016-07-27T18:45:49Z","body":"The API doesn't show that data currently.  It just shows iterations and submissions for the last 30 days by language track.  I'll work on changing it to expose additional stats.  \r\n\r\nAs far as I can tell, this is the only API for Stats.  I am new to poking around exercism so please correct me if there is more somewhere else.  \r\n[https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io/blob/10591be6d5de31a789fab0e5e0cebe15716b766c/api/v1/routes/stats.rb](https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io/blob/10591be6d5de31a789fab0e5e0cebe15716b766c/api/v1/routes/stats.rb)"}}
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