What is Exercism?
Exercism is an online platform designed to help you improve your coding skills through practice and mentorship.
Exercism provides you with thousands of exercises spread across numerous language tracks. Once you start a language track you are presented with a core set of exercises to complete. Each one is a fun and interesting challenge designed to teach you a little more about the features of a language.
You complete a challenge by downloading the exercise to your computer and solving it in your normal working environment. Once you've finished you submit it online and one of our mentors will give you feedback on how you could improve it using features of the language that you may not be familiar with. After a couple of rounds of refactoring, your exercise will be complete and you will unlock both the next core exercise and also a series of related side-exercises for you to practice with.
Exercism is entirely open source and relies on the contributions of thousands of wonderful people, including our leadership team, our mentors, our track maintainers, and thousands of contributors.
Exercism is designed to be fun and friendly, and we place a strong emphasis on empathetic communication. If you have any questions or concerns about Exercism, you can browse our FAQs or contact us.
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Who owns and runs Exercism?
Exercism is a not-for-profit company. It is legally based in the United Kingdom, with Company Registration Number 11733062. It is "company limited by guarantee" which means there are no shareholders, and no individuals "own" the company. Instead, the company has trustees who are responsible for ensuring it meets its aims and objectives. The current trustees are Katrina Owen and Jeremy Walker, who are also the company's Directors.
