Today’s exercise is flower-field. This is the one they replaced minesweeper with because they were triggered by reality and can’t understand that play lets you learn to face bad things in a normal healthy manner. It is pandering not sensitivity.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Crypto Square. Given some text make it lower case, remove everything that is punctuation or white space then chop it up into blocks making it roughly square shaped. Then take those blocks and glue the nth character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Matrix. You load a table of integers from file and return a given row or column. Last night I put in a bunch of work and I think I got DIM/arrays working (no REDIM). I think I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was super easy, barely an inconvenience. Just list some actions based on bit flags. Only tricky part was the reverse which I just did manually. One again I unsuccessfully tried to take it easy on myself by just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have you ever done a problem then checked other people solutions to see they did in a much better and easier to understand way. Well that happened to me today. For the exercise Anagram (check if two words are different[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was the Sieve of Eratosthenes. You find prime numbers by filtering out numbers that are a multiple other primes (>= 2). I worked on refactoring the IF statement today. I broke it up into if, elseif, else, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Parallel Letter Frequency. Get the frequency of letters in a bunch of strings, but in Parallel. I thought I was good with a Parallel.ForEach but everyone else used a .AsParallel() LINQ query. I decided I was far[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was ETL which basically just reformatted some data. It was pretty easy. A community solution doing it in LINQ looked like an unreadable mess to me. For the interpreter, I think my setup is inherently flawed. I need[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was a Substitution Cipher. My code is kind of an ugly mess of modulus operations but it works. Although I did accidently define a constant twice and leave an unnecessary copy around. Some of the community solutions were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Roman numerals. Surprisingly difficult for me to get right. I saw the community solutions and mine is overly complicated. I just went down the line of each possible numeral largest to smallest. Other people had special cases[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…