Consider adding a hint message with links for each question about python-type-challenges HOT 5 CLOSED

Adding hint is something I've always considered, but I haven't thought of an ideal way to store hints.

Here are the requirements if we were to add this feature:

• Hint should be optional for a challenge (i.e. it's perfectly fine that a challenge does not have hint(s))
• Adding hint should be easy and add as little extra work as possible for contributors

In terms of implementation, I'm a bit hesitant to put it in question.py. Having to write ## End of your code ## is already very tedious (I can't remember it and have to copy&paste each time adding a new challenge), and ## HINT start ## makes things worse...

At this point I'm more leaning towards putting hints in a separate file. Maybe we can store it in a markdown hints.md so that it's easier to add (than write html). So it would look something like

# hints.md
HINT: Check out [Callable](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#annotating-callable-objects).

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Having to put ## End of your code ## is already very tedious (I can't remember it and have to copy each time adding a new challenge), and ## HINT start ## makes things worse...

lol, yes, that would definitely make it harder to add new questions and make question.py a little too noisy. If we don't want to stick to using magic comments in question.py, introducing a new markdown file for storing hint messages would be better.

I would be happy to implement this feature.

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Awesome, that would be of great help!

Another consideration is how to show hints on a challenge page. I think the only requirement is to not show it directly, maybe with a popup or something similar. I'll leave this to you to decide :)

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Implemented in #71.

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Closed, since most challenges have hints now. More will be added as time goes.

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