The Shypiguy has been tackling challenges on Codingame.com!

CodinGame has quite literally game-ified programming. Their web site presents a large variety of coding challenges in your choice of programming language, most of which revolve around solving some portion of a video game requirement. On top of that, your progress is tracked with points earned through validation of your code.

The site presents a slick IDE and debug interface and starts off each challenge for you with a skeleton code outline and some number of validation cases.

I’ve found the puzzles fun and engaging, and the points system keeps me interested in the next challenge.

Even better, once you solve a puzzle, you can see other users’ solutions – man, there are some clever coders out there! I guarantee someone has solved the same problem in less lines of code than you did!

Come join me on CodinGame.com – it’s excellent exercise for your coder muscle.