As I have a working knowledge of SQL this was very simple but my friends who use it sparsely in their financial jobs had a blast racing each other.
This type of gamification is awesome and as someone who loves coding but doesn't find Sudoku's or whatever very enjoyable, I would love a place I could do little coding challenges like this in break times!
Anyone know of any? I'm thinking "Escape Rooms" via coding could be a big thing!
Here's a super fun one where you SSH into different servers and have to use Bash/unix tools to find clues to get to the next one: https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
My guess is when you don't make it a hard core coding thing but more of a general search quest it would be more succesful. Like in this case: you need to have a search function / filter options on those tables. Even transfering it to Excel (the horror) would increase the target population with huge factor.
This only applies during December, but https://adventofcode.com/ is a fun experience! Most puzzles range from 30 minutes to 3 hours from start to finish.
This type of gamification is awesome and as someone who loves coding but doesn't find Sudoku's or whatever very enjoyable, I would love a place I could do little coding challenges like this in break times!
Anyone know of any? I'm thinking "Escape Rooms" via coding could be a big thing!