Today’s exercise was Grade School you keep track of a list of students each having a name and grade level. Don’t allow students with duplicate names. Return the students of a given grade sorted by name, or the whole thing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Pascal’s triangle. This one was also marked medium but if it hadn’t been for arrays being uncooperative it would have taken half no time. The description promised a Sierpinski triangle if you colored odd and even numbers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never seem to have enough time to do this on Saturday’s and or Sundays. I am thinking of having some sort of different projects for the weekends. Maybe just reading or something. Not sure yet. All I had time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Bob. You calculate responses from a non-verbal teen. You check for ending question mark all caps text and empty messages. I thought you got an award for finishing Bob but I guess not for Javascript. Surprisingly no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why do logins insist on timing out a login after a few weeks. I have seen both exercism and wordpress do it. Well today exercism did it. I thought I could just login with my github credentials but that just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was line up which was largely simple string substitution with a few edge cases. This one was specified nicely but they really should tell you the type and order of parameters to the function. I shouldn’t have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was pangram (a word/phrase that includes every letter of the alphabet [a-z] at least once [case-insensitive]). I thought I was showing off by using several higher order functions. It looks like the higher order function I should have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Space Age. You calculate your age based on the year length for each planet in the solar system (orbital periods are given). For being such a simple exercise it sure took a while. That was largely due[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was RNA transcription. Pretty easy. Looks like everyone had almost the exact same solution as me, just the variable names were different. I downloaded BGB a GameBoy emulator good for debugging, and RGBDS, a Gameboy Development system as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I couldn’t get motivated until late in the day. Anyway today’s exercise was gigasecond. Basically for a given date return a new date a million seconds later. Dates are stored as milliseconds past a given epoc so you just add[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…