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Looks very similar to the Exercism model, which also has a free WASM course filled with small exercises[1]. I wonder if the author considered contributing to that course or working together with them, it might get their work to a broader audience and leverage the existing toolset Exercism has to offer.

[1]https://exercism.org/tracks/wasm

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I really like Exercism! Unfortunately their exercise model is considerably more free-form where it teaches you considerably less and in much larger chunks. I think this is a great model for certain contexts, but the format I have in the repo is more similar to "rustlings" and "ziglings" where you're taught syntax and features alongside the code examples.

I don't know that their Wasm module is necessarily "broken", so I'm unsure whether my contributions would be welcome.

Very fair! It's been close to a decade since I used Exercism so I don't really know what their stuff is like nowadays. From what I remember, the focus was less on teaching you the language directly (via instructions) and was more on encouraging the user to reiterate on their code and experiment, and letting reviewers lead the direction of growth.

One thing I don't like about Exercism is that except for the most popular languages, the exercises are often not "sysematics".

In other words, it's just a bunch of leetcode-like questions, ordered by difficulties.

A proper course should order the exercises by language features. Exercism actually has built a fantastic interface for this[1], but not utiltized it for most langauges.

[1]: https://exercism.org/tracks/csharp/concepts

I completely agree with this. I love the platform, the mentors, and the enthusiasm for languages. They’ve done a great series every month this year on a new set of languages, and have great YouTube interviews.

However, the problems they offer do not help you learn the syntax or quirks of specific languages and for me are only a place to practice leetcode/codewars style logic. Also important! But not what I need when I first begin a language.

But leetcode has this https://leetcode.com/studyplan/

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