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What can you do with solutions
Hi guys
We no longer support Python 2.7, and we have begun working on speed optimization. One of the biggest updates was released just recently, which allow pages related to user solutions to work much faster.
Since we mentioned solutions let’s go through all the related features.
Last Week Tonight
A new CheckiO mission based on HBO's show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver finally released.
Python 3 Only
All solutions have finally been migrated to Python 3. All SendGrid mission are in Normal Mode, so you can see solutions LeaderBoard.
New Unique CheckiO Island
Hey! A brand new Island has been released on CheckiO! It’s called SendGrid Island! There are several unique things with this island you’ll want to check out...
Interview with Dahlia
I am very excited to share an interview with one of CheckiO'snosy active users. Dahlia, is helping other users on the forum, creating new missions, and providing German translation for our current missions. It was a very positive and informative conversation.
Video Code Review with Veky: contextlib and ast
Together with veky we do our next video code review for solutions that use contextlib and ast
Levels
CheckiO has a lot of features that become available, or unlocked, with higher levels. Here is a list of all the potential features and at which levels they become available to users.
Job Board
We are now ready to present the first version of CheckiO Job Board! It has been released for testing in four countries: USA, Russia, Ukraine and UK, and will be available for level 4 users.
Interview with kurosawa4434
Last week we shared a new mission from kurosawa4434 called "Climbing Route". This is actually his third mission we thought it would be great to do a short interview with him.
Forum Tags
An improvements to make the forum not only a place where you can get help with solving missions but also a place where you can learn something new and meet other people who share your love for coding
CheckiO Public Blog
If some of you would like to contribute an article to CheckiO - please contact with me directly. I would be more than happy to take submissions that are beneficial to fellow users, players and coders – in regards to Python and JavaScript.
You can create missions again
Video tutorial of creating mission, short article from video code review and some other python news
Things I learned from Video Code Review with veky
Since the last year, one of our Awesome Users veky has been doing video code review on CheckiO. Here is a very short highlight of the most interesting and educational code:
Today is the hottest day of winter
Hot section, last mission in the left menu, quick following, opened missions and happy holidays :)
PEP 498 - f-strings for Python 3.6
PEP 498 - Literal String Interpolation. The main idea around f-strings is to have a simpler way to format strings in Python. Let me show you what this simplification looks like.
