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    Chris Maunder
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    Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

    cheers Chris Maunder

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      Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

      cheers Chris Maunder

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      realJSOP
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      Pick someone's homework question from Q/A...

      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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        Pick someone's homework question from Q/A...

        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
        -----
        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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        Chris Maunder
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        Did I mention it has to be well-defined?

        cheers Chris Maunder

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          Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

          cheers Chris Maunder

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          Lost User
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          Chris Maunder wrote:

          Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

          Where's the results from last weeks challenge? Did it work?

          Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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            Chris Maunder wrote:

            Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

            Where's the results from last weeks challenge? Did it work?

            Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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            Chris Maunder
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            I'll announce Friday

            cheers Chris Maunder

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              Did I mention it has to be well-defined?

              cheers Chris Maunder

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              PIEBALDconsult
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              Unlike last week's? :-D

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                Pick someone's homework question from Q/A...

                ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                -----
                You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                -----
                When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                PIEBALDconsult
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                Oooh, yeah, I like the one about Pascal's Triangle the other day. :thumbsup:

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                  I'll announce Friday

                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                  Lost User
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                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                  I'll announce Friday

                  I wasn't asked to test it, so it can't been known to work.

                  Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                    Marc Clifton
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                    Chris Maunder wrote:

                    We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                    Technically, that is how all projects should be implemented -- broken down into simply, easily coded and tested, tasks. So I wonder, what would the weekly coding challenge look like if there was an overall story arc, ideally where only you know what the end goal is, and as an additional game, we could guess. Which gets me to wonder next, does the coding challenge have to be stand-alone or can it involve some third party API or existing open source code base? Regarding the story arc, I would probably avoid something that creates a product or website. That said, simulations are always fun, for example, I've always wanted to write something that models the gravitational interaction of objects. Simple games are also fun, though that probably gets into the "product" arena too much. The point being, coming up with interesting (and useful!) coding challenges is actually quite a challenge, especially given that the idea of a story arc comprised of coding challenges requires, well, some management. ;) So, other than that, no immediate ideas right now. :( Marc

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                      Chris Maunder wrote:

                      I'll announce Friday

                      I wasn't asked to test it, so it can't been known to work.

                      Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                      You weren't drunk when it was written so your testing would be off anyway. ;P

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                        Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                        A financial transaction categorization engine with customizable categories and custom matching expressions.

                        #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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                          Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                          Jon McKee
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                          Idea: Rotating an NxN matrix in-place, maybe? Question: What exactly are the answers graded on? Creativity, complexity, simplicity, or some other metric?

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                            Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                            cheers Chris Maunder

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                            R Giskard Reventlov
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                            Code the flux capacitor?

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                              Code the flux capacitor?

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                              PIEBALDconsult
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                              That's a hardware problem.

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                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                                Technically, that is how all projects should be implemented -- broken down into simply, easily coded and tested, tasks. So I wonder, what would the weekly coding challenge look like if there was an overall story arc, ideally where only you know what the end goal is, and as an additional game, we could guess. Which gets me to wonder next, does the coding challenge have to be stand-alone or can it involve some third party API or existing open source code base? Regarding the story arc, I would probably avoid something that creates a product or website. That said, simulations are always fun, for example, I've always wanted to write something that models the gravitational interaction of objects. Simple games are also fun, though that probably gets into the "product" arena too much. The point being, coming up with interesting (and useful!) coding challenges is actually quite a challenge, especially given that the idea of a story arc comprised of coding challenges requires, well, some management. ;) So, other than that, no immediate ideas right now. :( Marc

                                V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                                David ONeil
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                                An arc could be interesting. Do one component of a simple game, or other task, every week, and put it together at the end. Or recode the entire codeproject site, one step at a time :) oh wait - I meant :~

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                                  Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                                  dan sh
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                                  Josephus problem solver Collatz sequence generator An Angular2 SPA app that allows managing certain entities. And just for testing purposes, use Node for server side.

                                  "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                                    Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.

                                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                                    BillWoodruff
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                                    I like the coding challenges, but, why should they be "simple" ? best, Bill

                                    «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                                      Chris Maunder wrote:

                                      I'll announce Friday

                                      I wasn't asked to test it, so it can't been known to work.

                                      Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                                      PIEBALDconsult
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                                      I, for one, do not have access to Chris' Big List of Mickisms with which to test mine. Without The List -- and sixteen (!) years worth of posts -- none of us can perform a proper stress test of our codez. I also don't want to melt down my system.

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                                        Josephus problem solver Collatz sequence generator An Angular2 SPA app that allows managing certain entities. And just for testing purposes, use Node for server side.

                                        "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                                        Jon McKee
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                                        A Collatz generator could be interesting since there are optimizations available but the Josephus problem already has an extremely simple solution using binary. I doubt it would yield any interesting programs except maybe the language used. Not a fan of the app since that specifically targets only people that use both AngularJS and NodeJS. Just my 2 cents :)

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                                          I like the coding challenges, but, why should they be "simple" ? best, Bill

                                          «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                                          Jon McKee
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                                          I know I wouldn't want to spend all my time in a week looking over 20+ KLOC from 15+ entries, testing them to ensure they meet the requirements, and then using some metric to rate which came out on top. Depending on complexity that might be a restrained estimate as well X|

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