Come up with a draft ordering of the exercises in xJava

[jtigger]

[jtigger]

I'm gonna share my ongoing thoughts, here, as I continue through the track.

• (as I've said in another ticket) gigasecond seems trivial in the Java track.
• accumulate is a fairly simple solution that leverages generics; it's nearly identical to strain. At the very least, they could go as a pair (one right after the other). This should be fairly late in the track as we're drawing on both generics and FP.
• trinary is EXACTLY binary except it's base 3. I think it would be fun to actually deliberately put these back-to-back and challenge the programmer to generalize upto base 16.
• ...

[matthewmorgan]

@jtigger did you see the comment I made on this? It seems to be gone...?

[jtigger]

@matthewmorgan I saw it. That was on a separate issue: #143.

[matthewmorgan]

I'm losing it! thanks :)

[jtigger]

...wait... you had it? ;)

[jtigger]

@exercism/java: the track is about to pick-up this work in earnest.

I've found that taking the time to understand why we're doing a work yields higher quality outcomes.

Please take a moment to consider and share your thoughts: why does the Java track of Exercism exist? What purpose does it serve? Whom does it serve?

[jtigger]

@exercism/java I've created a spreadsheet for us to collect our assessments https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15UbVn4cBUxI7tekKmNNls9dXsT1rDhtG7Z8lp1nmjlM/edit

Please fill-out the sheet according to your assessment:

• share your thoughts in the Notes tab;
• name the topics invoked by the exercise in the Topics tab;
• estimate the difficulty of the exercise in Difficulty tab.

You might find #134 inspiring.

The original request is #125.

Thanks!

[stkent]

Will take a crack at this over the holidays :)