Yesterday was the half way mark, WAHOOO!! Anyway, today’s exercises were: Pig Latin: Translate a word or phrase into pig-latin. I decided regular expressions were a good idea here. I am missing a string.findIndex() function a lot. Proverb: Recite the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I did three exercism exercises on the Javascript track. Food Chain – Programmatically build up the ‘There was an old lady that swallowed a fly’ nursery rhyme. House – Pretty much the same as except it is the nursery[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise as mentioned yesterday is the subset of Forth interpreter. Forth is a stack based language so you can say things like 5 3 + and it will push 5 then 3 on the stack, then pop 5 and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even more exercism exercises on the Javascript track. Today I did the following: Spiral Matrix – Feels similar to the rectangle tracing I did yesterday. Fill spaces in a square matrix in a spiral pattern of sequentially increasing numbers starting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ok let’s list today’s exercises. series – return an array of substrings of a given length, but change each substring into an array of numbers. I sure did fuss too much on that one. largest series product – I used[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I just did some exercism exercises. I didn’t have much time or energy so that is all you got. I at least did several this time. High Scores: Lots of fussing but not hard. Keep track of high scores[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Only had a few minutes to myself and got a single exercism exercise of Acronym done. Sorry. I still did something so I am calling the streak continued, I am not restarting or quitting (yet).
Exercises time. Prime factors, the community did the problem more gracefully than mine. Grains was ok, but for the last square of the chessboard I was getting the wrong value. It looked like rounding error so I switched to bigint[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s first exercise was word count. It looked like a perfect use for regular expressions. The community solutions seem to agree. The ones I saw were fancier than mine, but I think mine is more readable. Bank Account had me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Life, the Universe and Everything! Why doesn’t javascript have a Math.sum() function? I did find a Math.sumPrecise() maybe I should have used that, but I wanted sum. I used a reduce higher level instruction instead. Otherwise todays first exercise hamming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…