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"Hello, World!"

So... uh... this is a bit embarrassing. But we don't have a plain "Hello, World!" challenge yet (despite having 35 variants tagged with hello-world, and counting). While this is not the most ...
Martin Ender's user avatar
131 votes
211 answers
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Sing Happy Birthday to your favourite programming language

Your favourite programming language has just had a birthday. Be nice and sing it the Happy Birthday song. Of course you should accomplish this by writing a program in that language. The program takes ...
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Tips for golfing in C

What general tips do you have for golfing in C? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C (e.g. "remove comments" is not an ...
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Tips for golfing in Haskell

What general tips do you have for golfing in Haskell? I am looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Haskell. Please post only one ...
Animesh 'the CODER''s user avatar
137 votes
29 answers
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Making Future Posts Runnable Online with Stack Snippets [closed]

Stack Snippets were recently added to PPCG! Reminiscent of JSFiddle, Stack Snippets allow HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be run directly in posts! Here is a very simple Stack Snippet: ...
Calvin's Hobbies's user avatar
40 votes
87 answers
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Generate ;# code

Related to: Make a ;# interpreter In the above linked challenge the task was to create an interpreter for the esoteric language ;#. The ...
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62 votes
31 answers
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

Code-Bowling You've been hired by Brunswick Bowling to create a simple program to output the text Code Bowling on their monitors. This company is worth a pretty ...
Albert Renshaw's user avatar
53 votes
31 answers
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Generate a mandelbrot fractal [closed]

Your task is to draw the mandelbrot set in ascii. It should look something like The complex number c lies in the mandelbrot set, when the sequence ...
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Transpile ;# into your language

Related to: Make a ;# interpreter and Generate ;# code ;# - A Whirlwind Guide This is a simple language with two commands. Its only data structure is an ...
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27 votes
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It almost works (Cops' Thread)

Robbers' Thread Your challenge is to find an existing challenge, and implement it in a way such that certain inputs fail. At least one input must not produce the correct output (use the other ...
emanresu A's user avatar
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12 answers
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Make a polyglot generator

A polyglot is a program that runs in several languages. Your challenge is to: Choose at least two languages (Different versions count as different languages) Create a program or function that takes ...
emanresu A's user avatar
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Interpret +p code

Inspired by the recent craze over another two character language, ;# Intro According to community consensus, acceptable answers on this site must use programming ...
Socratic Phoenix's user avatar
15 votes
18 answers
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It almost works (Robbers' Thread)

Cops' Thread Your challenge is to find an uncracked, unsafe cop on the cops thread, and find an input value for which their code does not do as specified by the challenge. You must use values within ...
emanresu A's user avatar
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7 votes
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Interpret PlusOrMinus

PlusOrMinus is an esoteric programming language invented by Esolang user PythonshellDebugwindow. Language specification There is a wrapping byte accumulator (incrementing ...
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Make a ;#*:) interpreter [duplicate]

A few month back, I made a language called ;# (Semicolon Hash) and it started a little bit of a craze (it even got its own tag, as you can see). But, as with ...
caird coinheringaahin g's user avatar