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Introducing DEV Challenges

dev.to staff on March 14, 2024

We are starting something special. It’s called DEV Challenges, a new way to participate in the community, build your DEV Profile, earn special badg...
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Temani Afif

CSS Art? Loading animation? Frontend?

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Ben Halpern

YESSSS

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Thaísa Vieira

LOL! That was exactly my reaction!

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adriens

LOOOOL @afif

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Ben Halpern

Looking forward to seeing folks for the first challenge

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Best Codes

What an awesome idea! Challenges, in my experience at least, usually inspire people to do the best they can. Which means that we'll probably see some really impressive stuff on DEV!
I've always wanted to join a coding challenge (to at least be a part of it, I doubt I'd ever win XD), but they seemed very complicated to register for and hard to find info on. This will hopefully simplify that process a lot!
Anyway, can't wait for the first challenge!

Keep up the good work, DEV!

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Ben Halpern

This will hopefully simplify that process a lot!

These will be very simple but allow for creativity.

As we progress we may sprinkle in some "more involved" challenges, but to start these will be things which can be done in a single sitting and it will be really easy to enter.

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Best Codes

Awesome! I can't wait for the first one. 😄

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Jaime López

Great initiative!!!

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Ben Halpern

Hope to see you participating!

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Jaime López

No doubts about it 😊

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Ben Halpern

Fabulous

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adriens

Curious about the next challenges to see how inspiring they are ;-p

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Ben Halpern

If you have ideas for challenges yourself let us know, we'll definitely be looking for inspiration.

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adriens

Where should we post them ?

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Ben Halpern

We'll circle back with an official place to leave suggestions next week.

In the meantime feel free to reply here 😄

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adriens

I gues that would be cool to promote DEV.to API and datas through a dedicated kind of hackathon to celebrate the platform, its community and its potential thanks to its awesome and open APIs 🤗

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Ben Halpern

Oh good call

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adriens

Indeed and we have deeply integrated these data so I could build and sotytell something around it

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Andrew Bone

Love this, will be great to see the stuff people make 🤩

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Ben Halpern

This one is definitely up your alley, so looking forward to your submission 😄

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Michelle Sanseverino

Looking foward for the first challenge! Pretty excited to try my best and see what everyone is able to do. It's going to be an excellent way to learn.

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Ben Halpern

Very well put Michelle

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Thaísa Vieira

Sure, Michelle! I love to work on that kind of project and I also learn a lot by seeing what others are doing! We'll have a great time!

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Jess Lee

This is going to be fun 🍿😉

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Jitendra Choudhary

Excited for the challenge!! Let's see how it goes

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Ben Halpern

Can’t wait to see your submission

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Jitendra Choudhary

Thank you, Ben!! I'm equally excited for you to see it.

Will these challenges lean more towards codepen-style creativity or endless hours of hackathons type?

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Ben Halpern

Much more of the codepen-style creativity.

Everyone should be able to submit a valid entry with less than an hour of work for most prompts.

Our reason for multiple prompts is that maybe we'll sometimes have more intensive challenges, but generally these will be simple challenges where a bit of creative inspiration is more important than hours and hours of work.

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Jitendra Choudhary

Got it.

Most people fall into this category(dedicating an hour), so I am expecting more fun and engagement.

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Michael Tharrington

So so siked for these challenges! Lotta potential to incorporate these into what we're doing. 😀

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Niral

It will be fun !!

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Rudransh Bhardwaj

We want challenge to be some real world problem
to see different approaches

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

I'm not the artsy type, so I doubt I'd do well with unicorns, but I'd love to try my hand at some real world problems.

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Ben Halpern

Just out of my curiosity, what would you describe as real world problems (no wrong answers)

I suspect we already have a prompt in this challenge which is, in fact, more "real world" than the unicorns, but I'd love to hear your perspective on the matter.

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

Hmmmmm. Good question. Well, I would say situations that the average web developer, in the average days work, would run into. Now, I'm not saying it's impossible that, in the line of work, a developer would need to make a unicorn with CSS, but it seems highly unlikely. The loading animation, on the other hand, seems to be very real world.

You see, my main interest in these challenges is that they are a learning opportunity.

(Thanks for your response by the way).

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Rudransh Bhardwaj

I dont mean next YouTube or Facebook

I just want a problem statement which is interesting and motivating, like create a small drawing app for a specific use case or any other which have potential to help someone a little bit

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Rudransh Bhardwaj

Hmmm
You are right but I want a problem statement which is interesting and very creative.
Thanks for reading :)

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

A drawing app sounds great!

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FrontEndWebDeveloping

I'm a new member of the community (and new to software development too). Am I still eligible to join???

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Ben Halpern

Yup!

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Walter

count me in!

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Ben Halpern

Holding you to that!

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Mohammed Nadeem Shareef

Great idea looking forward to the challenges

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Ben Halpern

Hope to see your submission Mohammed

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Thea

Can't wait to join! 🤩

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Ben Halpern

Awesome!

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Matt Ryan

Awesome idea. Sounds like fun.

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Ben Halpern

Great to hear Matt, hope to see you in the first challenge.

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Mangabo Kolawole

Nice 🔥🔥🔥

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Ben Halpern

Hope to see your submissions!

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Christine Belzie

Looking forward to the first challenge! :)

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Ben Halpern

Yay, can’t wait Christine.

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Debajyati Dey

Sounds amazing! Can't wait to join!

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Ben Halpern

Awesome

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Michael La Posta

`We may sometimes have goofy prompts:

  • Make the worst possible...`

Finally, my time to shine. 😏

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Ben Halpern

Lol

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Mohammad Alhraki

CSS , the horror 🤯😨🤡

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Thomas Bnt

Oooh cooooooooooooooooooooooool !

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

Can't wait

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Shrijal Acharya

Lovely idea! I have exams coming up and would love to take part. Wrong timing for me. 😭

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Ben Halpern

Well keep doing them so you can partake in the future.

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Meet Rajesh Gor

This looks cool, excited for it!

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Ferdinand Davidenko

Count on me! I'm ready for improving my skills and have fun! :D

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MicroAI

Amazing, waiting...

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Patrick Zocli

So excited !!!

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Rafael Barbosa da Silva

Much good!👍

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hydaline-code

Top notch very much in for the challenge

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sahra 💫

It's March 20😁. Still waiting on that first challenge

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Ben Halpern

Coming out in a few hours

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Pizofreude

Let's go.

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Deepak Yadav

Looking forward to seeing folks for the first challenge ✨❤️

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Thaísa Vieira

This sounds great! I'd love to participate and interact with other participants! I can't wait for goofy prompts, those are my favorite kinds of challenges!

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Renan Ferro

Looking forward to the first challenge and participating with the community

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Μάριος

Interesting idea ! Thank you !

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Aidan

Exciting times! Looking forward to getting stuck in 💻

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COBANNVS BARBAROSSA

Awesome!
I can't wait to participate. Good luck to everyone, and let's have some fun!

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Raziel Rodrigues

Let's see!

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pedrovian4

Oh nice! I love hacktons.

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Alexander Maina

Awesome idea

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Diogo Pacheco Pedro

Love this and can’t to take part

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adriens

Open ideas, Open Source & Open Data : now, you talk to me <3

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Ana Maria | Tecnologia

Que ótima notícia, @thepracticaldev ! Ansiosa para participar e conhecer os desafios #devchallenge, divulgarei essa iniciativa em minha página para que alcance ainda mais devs da comunidade!

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Sundus Hussain

can we add pictures from internet???

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Investigate5150

I am not experienced at all with coding but I can't wait for this to be my first try at it.

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Fxllen

This sounds fire!

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Akinmulero

Wow this is phenomenal!

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Shahseo

coool

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Sunil Kumar

Today I joined Dev.to and got news about front end challenges. Good news at first day! I am so excited!!!

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TronkaD

une bonne intiative

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liuweiqing

what's the award?

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Jacquelyn.L

Is anyone else finding this hard to read? The font is lovely but it’s taking me a minute to figure out what I’m reading. 😅