Okay, I thought I came up with some good challenges and a fun freebie to go with them. I seem to be getting some followers, but not a lot of people trying them.
What kinds of things are you all interested in? I can find all sorts of things, many of them are math-y (statistics and things like that), or string management and still others require you be willing to handle things like differential equations.
If you mention what you might like I can either find some or make some up.
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@Absinthe I'm an algorithms guy myself, all about making hard tasks efficient. But not so sure that would attract others as much. I will reshare any challenges you have though and try to do them myself.
Here's one I found for you :) I was looking through some and it seemed like it might be too much to ask for a fresh beginner, but I will be giving it a try, though I haven't quite yet.
The number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 can have either the operator "+" or "-" placed between them, as well if no operator is placed then the adjoining numbers go together such as 1 2 would become "12" or 1 2 3 would become "123" and so forth. The goal is to find the combinations that would make the line calculate up to 100 exactly.
Here is an example: 12 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100
There are more to be found.
Hardest one I've done so far. Took over an hour, though I didn't time it.
https://github.com/billstclair/toy-programming-challenge/blob/master/zero-to-nine.lisp
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@billstclair @freemo #toyprogrammingchallenge
I thought I sent this one to @freemo privately. :) Live and learn. This is going to be the one for this week.
I am going to try to run this, but just walking the code is showing
me more Lisp than I currently know. Although, I would have expected the Lisp to look shorter than my python .....
It does work with gcl from my command line :)
@freemo if that is too easy, then start with them in randomized order. :)