Organize Halloween Candy - Hole #4
What does every kid do after he/she collects buckets of candy over Halloween?
Sort it by type and size, of course1!
The Challenge
Given a dumped-out bag of candy of varying shapes and sizes, sort the candy from left to right based on:
The amount of candy ...
Autogram programs
This sentence employs two a’s, two c’s, two d’s, twenty-eight e’s, five f’s, three g’s, eight h’s, eleven i’s, three l’s, two m’s, thirteen n’s, nine o’s, two p’s, five r’s, twenty-five s’s, twenty-three t’s, six v’s, ten w’s, two x’s, five y’s, and one z.
Such sentences are ...
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When I was a lad, kids would wander into computer stores and play Hunt the Wumpus until the staff kicked us out. It was a simple game, programmable on the home computers of the mid-1970s, machines so rudimentary that instead of chicklet-sized microprocessors, I think some of them probably had rea...
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Eating Candy in the Correct Order
When it comes to eating candy, I hold myself to higher standards than the typical layperson. There is a delicate balance between "mixing it up" and "saving the best for last."
In this challenge, you will be given a string of characters in which each character ...
