What Happened To The Problem Pages?

What happened to the Problem Of The Week Pages? That's a good question! Initially, The Problem Site was designed specifically for Problem Of The Week and Problem Of The Month Pages. Students (and adults too!) could visit the site each week and get a new problem, solve it, and then submit their solution for grading. The Problem Moderator would review their solution, reply with comments and grade them on their solution. A high score list would show how returning members were doing from week to week.

But now those pages (found here: Problem Pages) are displaying no new problems. So what happened? Well, those pages were hosted by four different people, and at various points over the last couple years, we got distracted by other things, and found it was a great deal of work to post new problems each week/month. Part of the problem was, those problem pages were some of the very first web pages I ever designed, so they were not the easiest to manage!

So my goal this school year was, after updating the site appearance and layout (done) and after adding several new games (also done), I would tackle a complete overhaul of the Problem Pages. My goal was to have them back online by February, 2006.

So what happened?

Early on in 2006, I learned that The Problem Site was going to have to be migrated to a new server. As it turns out, this is a very positive move, and the new version of the Problem Pages will be much more robust and stable because of the move. But in the meantime, I decided it would be unwise to tackle the redesign before the site migration happened. Which means, of course, it'll probably work out that the new version is online just in time for the end of school.

Good timing, Doug!

So, in reality, what you can expect is that the Problem Pages will be back online for the 2006-2007 school year.