Refer learners to exercism.io or other practice resources after lesson?

[katrinleinweber]

Hello :-) This is a repost of carpentries/mentoring#31 where this repo was mentioned as a more fitting location.

How about mentioning some relevant resources like the exercism.io language tracks at the end of a lessons or in some extra page called "continue practicing", "where to go from here", "ingrain what you learned", "stick to it to become a pro", "explore more", or similar.

What do you think?

Tasks for me: send PR with...

• [ ] test in r-novice-inflammation
• [ ] template site to this repo
  • [x] define Jekyll variables for exercism-available languages
  • [x] free-from part
• [ ] specific examples to lesson repos
  • [ ] if-not git switch with list of available tracks to exclude

[katrinleinweber]

PS: For git-novice, this could be (in addition to what has been posted in https://github.com/carpentries/mentoring/issues/31:

• https://try.github.io/
• https://education.github.com/advisors

[rgaiacs]

@ChristinaLK said

It might be worth coordinating w/ the lesson-example/styles team to figure out where in the template this would be appropriate (I'm guessing another page under "extras"?) and then it could be filled in by community members.

I think a better place would be at the end of the lesson as a last episode. I need to ask other maintainers.

[katrinleinweber]

Another potential resource with focus on FLOSS contributions: https://openhatch.org/missions/

[katrinleinweber]

For regular expressions / REs: https://regexr.com/ & http://reg-exp.com/ have live testing, cheat-sheets, etc. regexper.com generates visual representations ("Railroad Diagrams").

[katrinleinweber]

[...] at the end of the lesson as a last episode.

Given that many workshops do not progress to the later episodes due to time constraints, I think additional advice, independent of the episodes should also receive an extra page, like the reference list.