@Doorknob do tag synonym suggestions actually show up anywhere in a review queue for the people allowed to vote or something? because how on earth is one otherwise gonna get 5 upvotes for them? as if anyone ever checks the tags if synonyms have been suggested...
@MartinBüttner Exactly my thoughts, but drawing isn't really synonymous with graphical output, is it? For example, ASCII art is still drawing, but not graphical output.
Remember my comment a long time ago? That I'd host a king-of-the-hill in C++? Well, I have finished writing a controller. I would've posted on Code Review, but I think there are too many files / too much code (judging from other Q's there tagged as [c++]).
Rearrange one picture to look like another
This puzzle is in the early rough draft stages. I'm writing this late at night. It is somewhat based on the other pixel-rearranging challenge here, but I hope this version leads to more creativity.
Write a program that rearranges the pixels in one ...
@overactor my plane at 0,0,8 is 8 units above the north-west-bottom corner, facing southeast, right? and your plane at 19,19,8 is 8 units above the south-east-bottom corner, facing northwest, right?
Morra, the Noble Game of Kings
In the quest for originality, I decided to "turn up the creativity" and try a different proposal.
The game of Morra is a simple game. In the "original" version, several players simultaneously throw out a number 0-5 with their hands while guessing the total sum ...
I actually think my proposal for the (slightly modified) game of Morra would make a decent challenge, but I don't know if I am experienced enough to host it unaided.
I would appreciate help in writing a controller program.
@Sparr Wow, now I see. I had the way the starting positions work so set in my mind that I didn't see the coordinates were wrong, I fixed it now. Thanks for pointing that out.
Yeah, that's what I thought when I first got here (because it's definitely the case for myself), but it seems most people are actually using SE at work and not at home.
(during term time, I've got two part time jobs... another scientific one in our cosmology department where I'm working on spherical harmonic and wavelet transforms on the sphere, and one for a software company in the e-commerce business)
@overactor no, it's not graphics related
(except for generating a few simple plots to see what's going on)
I started two weeks ago... first week was mostly reading... second week was porting some old F77 code to F90 and Python (and the new version of the framework I'm using), but on Friday I got the first results, and they looked pretty decent. it's definitely really interesting
@PhiNotPi that sounds like a really decent challenge, but I'd wait a bit before posting it. I think the pattern recognition branch of KotHs is a bit saturated at the moment. Although I guess it's gonna take a bit before the controller is done anyway.
@PhiNotPi You might want to ask Rainbolt or Eoin Campbell if you can base your controller on one of theirs
@overactor ah yes, I've had this KotH in the sandbox for ages
I never meant to post it as my first KotH because it's well complicated
I've had another idea for the about the same amount of time, but never sandboxed it (I actually plan to do that on Monday)... which would probably be a lot easier to implement
Kakuro Combinations
I'd have thought something like this would have already been asked, but I can't find anything that looks like a duplicate, I'm not the best person at searching for things though.
For those of you who know Kakuro, this isn't as interesting as it might sound - is there a bette...
@Doorknob a) Sandbox XIII lost the featured tag again. b) Can you migrate answers between questions? That might be an option for retiring the sandbox then. Everyone who still wants to keep their challenge visible and post it someday could have it migrated... and those people who don't let you know probably don't care about their sandboxed challenge any more anyway.
But I believe there are at least 3 KotHs in there, where the OPs are probably still planning to post them some day.
For instance, I posted mine from the outset with the intention to leave it there for a few months to develop the concept and spec properly before starting to work on a controller.
Your love you want to show 'em, generate them a poem.
Poetry is not easy;
Rhyming is too hard.
So generate me a poem that's not too cheesy.
If it's good enough we'll call it art.
In all honesty, poetry really is tough beans. So for this challenge I ask you to write some code in the language of...
This is my idea for a king-of-the-hill type game, please leave feedback if you have any comments on it.
Hackers Corp.
Hackers Corp. is a worldwide organization that specializes in black hat hacking. Their board of directors have decided that they are in need of new recruits, and they have the...
I flew out to the bay area for three job interviews at tech companies for devops/sre positions this month, and didn't get any of them. Some of the feedback was regarding my weak python skills. I'm gonna get more active in codegolf and spoj and try to get some intense practice before my next round of interviews.
one of them only wanted to interview in python, because that's what they use internally
the other two told me to use whatever I want, but they still had a preference for python, and I'm trying to get up to speed on pythonic ways to do things
Number to numeral in French
There was a challenge to convert a number to its numeral in English, but that was too straightforward. Given a number 0–100, your task is to output the corresponding numeral in French. The French numeral system has a similar, but less logical, logic behind it compared...
make a good sandbox. there are plenty of online programming contests that don't suffer from problems with malicious entries. spoj, topcoder, codegolf, etc
I can only run about half of the entrants on my machine
of the ones I can run, the top of the leaderboard looks like this: 53 CaveDoctor 51 FancyTechnoAlgorithm 50 ChargerMan 46 Watcher 44 MaybeMarkov 43 MinimaxMan
Display a Magic Square
code-golfkolmogorov-complexity
Your challenge is simply to print or display a 5x5 magic square -- a 5x5 grid of the numbers in which each number 1 through 25 appears exactly once, and in which every row, column, and diagonal has the same sum (which you can show must be 6...
Play Wythoff's Nim Perfectly
Your goal is to write a perfect player for the game of Wythoff's Nim in as few bytes as possible. This player will take as input a position in the game and output the position resulting from its move. It must play perfectly, meaning that it must win every game theore...
Rearrange one picture to look like another
This puzzle is in the early rough draft stages. I'm writing this late at night. It is somewhat based on the other pixel-rearranging challenge here, but I hope this version leads to more creativity.
Write a program that rearranges the pixels in one ...
Kakuro Combinations
I'd have thought something like this would have already been asked, but I can't find anything that looks like a duplicate, I'm not the best person at searching for things though.
For those of you who know Kakuro, this isn't as interesting as it might sound - is there a bette...
This is my idea for a king-of-the-hill type game, please leave feedback if you have any comments on it.
Hackers Corp.
Hackers Corp. is a worldwide organization that specializes in black hat hacking. Their board of directors have decided that they are in need of new recruits, and they have the...
