Codémon, I choose you!
king-of-the-hillgame
Your kindly neighbour, Doctor Tree, just gave you three magical creatures called Codémon. There's a battle tournament in the nearby town of Colorville. Are you the very best, like no one ever was?
Overview
This is a battle tournament. Each playe...
@feersum is there any way to run that TECO code without downloading and installing TECO?
What we need for these Levenshtein distance challenges is a snippet that actually visualises which characters were removed, added, substituted and which remain
@Geobits In the "Stats" section, I think it's clearer if you only said that you've got 80 points to distribute, because you're already saying that 50 points in each stat is the baseline. Mentioning the 230 seems unnecessary, because you can't decide what to do with 150 of them anyway.
@Geobits at the end of the battle section where you show how damage is calculated and what the maximum is, you might want to mention that this is all ignoring effects
and Poison seems pretty overpowered, unless you expect rounds not to normally last more than 3 turns against a single monster anyway.
you should also mention if inactive monsters can wake up and take poison/burn damage (unless that's somewhere in the protocol section, I didn't read that)
but I then I'd still have to check which of the 95 GB on my hard drive is the new one... which is especially tough if it's loads of small files (like Mathematica recently, which downloaded loads of small databases when I used the CountryData functions for Showcase your language... I discovered that only be accident)
I mean, there's not even really a point of cluttering language with too specific built-ins, because it's really unlikely exactly that comes up as a question. but I think all sorts of mathematical and combinatorial functions are fair game
as for my above example. basically there are no precedence rules based on the individual operators... instead everything is right-associative. which makes numerical expressions look funny ^^
why? it's the most language-agnostic you can get. it doesn't matter how many bytes the language uses to represent the integer, as long as you only store 32 bits of information in it.
@MartinBüttner you end up counting an internal feature of the code. So it becomes a theoretical analysis of an algorithm rather than a real coding challenge
@MartinBüttner and this time I wanted a coding challenge :)
yeah but that wasn't the only purpose of my approach ;)
@Lembik the best thing you could do for that is have the program report when it's started up, and subtract the memory usage at that point from the overall memory usage... but this will still be weird, because the interpreter might already allocate some memory it knows it'll need later
Implementing a joke language
This is more of an idea than a question. If it makes some sense I will work out the details.
You should write a program that can implement/run the following language (let's call it Patience).
A Patience code has the form: [input]>[output](,[input]>[output])* i.e. p...
@Martin Yea, I think 80 is clearer. Clened up that and the battle formula issue you mentioned.
@Martin Also, I was wondering about poison. I really only expect most battles to last 3-5 turns, so it shouldn't be too bad.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "inactive wake up and take burn/poison damage". If you're asking if inactive monsters take damage, then no (updated that).
@NathanMerrill I was going to run ColorScorePlayer today with java before and after the pull request ready to accept it. Do you have any opinion beforehand?
@Optimizer I do understand the question, but if it's not in the spec there's no reason to assume it's the same as in pokemon (especially since the spec can't assume everyone knows pokemon)
If I could assume everyone knew pokemon, the spec would be a lot shorter :P
I tried to write it for those that don't know it, but it's hard to do that perfectly. I'm sure it's still missing some things that seem completely obvious to me.
speaking of xkcd... my girlfriend got me the What If book for my birthday... some of the new ones (that he didn't post online) are pretty good. e.g. "What would happen if you made a periodic table out of cube-shaped bricks, where each brick was made of the corresponding element?" ... which is in itself pretty funny, but it has this amazing paragraph: "There's no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word "NO" scrawled over and over in charred blood."
@MartinBüttner "Monsters are not "processed" when inactive. This means they take no burn/poison damage, poison counters won't accumulate, no wake from sleep, etc. No effects are removed or changed when switching. This isn't that other monster battling game. If you switch out with attack raised and burned, they'll still be there when you switch back in."
in ruby (and perl I think) you can basically choose any delimiter, including balanced ones which you can use within the string as long as they are balanced
%~she said, "i'm tired"~ ... or even %(she said (quietly), "i'm tired")
You can still have triple quotes in your string as long as you use the other kind of triple quotes to delimit the string. If you want both kinds of triple quotes in your string then you'll need to escape (from whatever crazy place is demanding this of you)
Wow, someone upvoted "There is no need for such a tag" ... I really don't understand some people's tag phobia ... I think PPCG is using way too few tags... we've got an average of something like 2 tags per question (of course, in this particular case it could be that the person just didn't want to see those types of questions at all)
I don't see a need to clutter meta with it... it only affects the users active in chat. we can just do a quick poll by stars tomorrow when the other regulars are online too
@PeterTaylor do you know if random permutations (without built-ins) have been done?
I was thinking to use that as a replacement for my sort-the-digits idea, but if it hasn't been done at all I'd probably rather ask it for arrays than numbers.
According to some controversial story, the odrer of ltteres in a wrod deos not mttaer much for raednig, as lnog as the frist and lsat lteter macth with the orignial wrod.
So, for fun, what would be the shortest function to randomize letter order in a word while keeping the first and the last let...
A lottery company wants to generate a random lottery ticket number of length 10 characters.
Write a code in any language to create such a number in which every digit comes only once for example 9354716208 in this number all integers from 0 to 9 comes only once. This number should be a random num...
Goal:
Write a piece of code that produces a array containing all integer values in a set range in random order (upper and lower bounds included).
Use any language you like, but use as little built-in functions as possible (ie PHP's array_shuffle should be avoided)
Rules:
All ints in the range...
I found 7 other answers which contain the string rand}$ (i.e. sort_by(random) in GS) but those are the most similar to "shuffle an array". The others are a tips question, Hunt the Wumpus (select random positions for the pit and the wumpus), random numberplates, secret Santa, Boggle board generation, chess 960 generation, and some benchmarking code.
Codémon, I choose you!
king-of-the-hillgame
Your kindly neighbour, Doctor Tree, just gave you three magical creatures called Codémon. There's a battle tournament in the nearby town of Colorville. Are you the very best, like no one ever was?
Overview
This is a battle tournament. Each playe...
Implementing a joke language
This is more of an idea than a question. If it makes some sense I will work out the details.
You should write a program that can implement/run the following language (let's call it Patience).
A Patience code has the form: [input]>[output](,[input]>[output])* i.e. p...
Goal:
Write a piece of code that produces a array containing all integer values in a set range in random order (upper and lower bounds included).
Use any language you like, but use as little built-in functions as possible (ie PHP's array_shuffle should be avoided)
Rules:
All ints in the range...
