Jumped right from Hello World to Armstrong Numbers? about c HOT 5 CLOSED

@wolf99 I think this is definitely worth reworking. The resource that @ErikSchierboom shared looks like it has exactly the info we need to do this correctly.

I'll try to put up a draft of a new order in the next few days.

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@ErikSchierboom are there any resources or suggestions to assist tracks to know how to order exercises?

Not really no. Most maintainers have traditionally used their gut feeling, which is admittedly not much in terms of guidance. Looking at the difficulties, it might be that the difficulty of armstrong-numbers could be bumped a bit, as it is currently the lowest difficulty.

https://exercism.org/tracks/c/build can be really helpful to identify problems too. If you go to the practice exercises section, you'll quickly see that the completion rate of Armstrong Numbers is very low compared to other exercises. Same goes for Isogram.

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Seems like a fair comment!

The order on the website follows the order of the exercises listed in the tracks config.json.

However, I think it is a long while since we considered the ordering there. Any thoughts @ryanplusplus ?

@ErikSchierboom are there any resources or suggestions to assist tracks to know how to order exercises?

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We discussed the order shortly in issue #740 but did not follow up on that.

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