by joe | May 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Well I can’t leave this alone. Here’s a ‘C’ version: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <malloc.h> char *words[] = { "tsar", "rat", "tar", "star",...
by joe | May 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
PhiPi from the Propeller forums pointed out that my simple id() function would treat the words “MOW” and “LOX” as the same. This means my code “accidently worked” for the dataset provided in the question. PhiPi made a suggestion...
by joe | May 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
My friends on the Parallax Propeller forum posted the following quiz: During a 45-minute Facebook job interview you could be requested to write a C++ from scratch that does this: You have a list of these words “tsar”, “rat”, “tar”,...
by joe | May 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
A Lua response to Problem 4: Write a function that given a list of non negative integers, arranges them such that they form the largest possible number. For example, given [50, 2, 1, 9], the largest formed number is 95021. function eval(a, i) if not i then i = 1 max =...
by joe | May 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
A dude recently posted some programming challenges on his blog (here) that were mentioned on Reddit r/programming. Problem 5 caught my eye and below, I’ve posted a short and sweet Lua brute-force to solve it: Write a program that outputs all possibilities to put...
