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Title: HackInScience hits 10k solved exercices per month!
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Summary: HackInScience is my litlle side-project to teach Python at scale. Last month, ~1000 persons solved ~10k exercices on it.
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# What is HackInScience, again?
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This is a pet-project I started [with
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friends](https://www.hackinscience.org/team/) around 2014, we were
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teaching Python to full rooms of ~70 students: we had to automate
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stuff, we automated stuff.
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It allowed us to spend more time with the students actually needing
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us, while the other could work autonomously on the website, it was a
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huge success, with lots of positive feedbacks from students:
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> Thanks to the three of you! It was perfect, your availability and
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> method is exceptional. I achieved my main goal (recovering the
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> desire to code), and got frustrated when we reached friday and had
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> to leave. I'll continue working on the exercises but with a
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> different pace.
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(roughly translated from french, and about the pace: we had them to
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work from 9AM to 9PM.)
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Project evolved, we're no longer giving Python course in this
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university, but the project is still alive and growing!
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## So … what it is?
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It's a collection of exercices, each with a live correction bot,
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making great use of [friendly](https://github.com/aroberge/friendly/):
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# Project stats for may 2021
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Looks like the project is starting to get traction! I use no trackers
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(and there's no ad ;)) but I still can see the number of subscribed
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users and solved exercises in the database, and nice surprise for may
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2021:
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- 11740 exercises solved.
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- 1021 active users (not counting anonymous users).
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- The bots corrected 31397 submissions.
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# It's all FOSS
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Since the beginning [the project is
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open-source](https://framagit.org/hackinscience/hkis-website), using
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an MIT license, and is not tightly coupled to checking Python code, so
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I hope someone, if not me, will have the time, one day, to spawn an
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HackInScience with bash exercises, maybe C, ... (If you want to speed
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this up, consider [buying me
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coffee](https://www.hackinscience.org/sponsor/)).
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