I’ve been diving into language encoding challenges recently, and I’m curious to see how others tackle them. So here’s the scenario I want to throw out there for you all! Imagine you’re designing a simple encoding system for a fictional language ...Read more
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I was just thinking about that classic “99 Bottles of Beer” song and how it sounds like a fun challenge, especially for people who love coding. The concept of the challenge intrigues me, but I keep getting stuck on how ...Read more
I stumbled upon this intriguing challenge involving a celestial bureaucracy, where we have to deal with various factions like mortals and deities, all competing for divine favor. The concept blew my mind, and I can’t help but think about how ...Read more
I recently stumbled across this really cool challenge involving recreating a specific sentence using a limited set of functions or features, and I can’t stop thinking about it! It’s kind of like a brain teaser for coding enthusiasts and I’m ...Read more
I stumbled across this intriguing challenge the other day that got me thinking about creativity in problem-solving, and I wanted to share it here to see what you all think. So, the premise revolves around a poem by Robert Frost that ...Read more
I’ve been diving into some coding projects lately, and I keep running into the age-old debate about tabs versus spaces. It’s one of those topics that can ignite a passionate discussion among developers! So here’s my question: What’s the commonly ...Read more
I’ve got a fun little challenge for anyone who enjoys playing around with numbers and coding! You know the classic FizzBuzz problem, right? The one where you print numbers from 1 to n, but for multiples of 3 you output ...Read more
I’ve been playing around with some coding challenges lately and came across something interesting that I wanted to get your thoughts on. The goal is to count all the perfect squares below 100, but I’m curious how you would approach ...Read more
I stumbled upon this quirky challenge involving the frequency of letters in the English language, specifically focusing on the phrase “etaoin shrdlu,” which supposedly represents the most frequently used letters in English. It got me thinking—how can we engage with ...Read more
I recently stumbled upon something intriguing about Variable Length Quantity (VLQ) encoding and thought it would be fun to share a little challenge. For those not familiar, VLQ is a way of encoding integers using a variable number of bytes, ...Read more