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CheckiO vs Codechef

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When comparing CheckiO vs Codechef, the Slant community recommends CheckiO for most people. In the question“What are the best coding challenge sites?” CheckiO is ranked 6th while Codechef is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose CheckiO is:

Users can publish their solutions for different problems and other users can review the code and give their opinions on how they would have solved the problem. Sometimes, some of the most active users get their code reviewed by Guido Van Rossum (the creator of the Python language) himself.

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Pros

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Community backed solution reviews

Users can publish their solutions for different problems and other users can review the code and give their opinions on how they would have solved the problem.

Sometimes, some of the most active users get their code reviewed by Guido Van Rossum (the creator of the Python language) himself.

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Available in multiple languages

CheckiO crowdsources translations for problems. Currently problems have been translated in 10 languages. So it's highly possible that eventually more languages will be supported.

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Ability to create new challenges

New missions can be created and uploaded using GitHub. After that is done, it's suggested to CheckiO and if it fills all the requirements after being reviewed by a CheckiO team member, it's pulled into the game.

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Challenges from GitHub, O'Reilly, Dropbox and Hubspot.

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Large number of languages supported

Codechef supports an impressive number of languages in it's platform. More than 35 languages are supported, all with several problems and challenges and contests.

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Cons

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Not for absolute beginners

CheckiO does not teach syntax, instead it teaches how to solve problems using a particular programming language therefore some basic programming knowledge is required to start.

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Interaction inside the community is limited

The Codechef forums are not very active and they are the official way of interacting inside the Codechef community. Other than the forums, the only way of interacting with other members of the community is through the comment sections of different problems.