PHP-contest

I've been looking the PHP contests, and I've noticed, that :eek: they're too difficult for me. And I'm rather sure, that I'm not the only one. I think programming is great fun, but sometimes I'm missing ideas. When I'm missing ideas I usually come here and check if I could do the current competition's job. But I can't. :angry:

So Matt, :rolleyes: is it any way possible to have the competition AND easier PHP exercises for the newbies like me?

I've thought of this, but then the issue is that how do I judge them? If I make a easy contest, advanced users would be able to breeze through them and win without any problems. There is no way for me to weed out the advanced from beginning programmer except the honor system. Unfortunatly in our world today, the honor system doesn't work

I didn't mean a contest. No prices, no judgement. Just tasks for newbies to complete. Then there would be an option to view other users' code in action or something like that. If there are no prices for it, the advanced coders won't bother to code anything, because they wouldn't benefit from it. And the niewbie coders will code something because they want to learn something.

In a nutshell: A tutorial that tells only what to do, not how to do.