Questions tagged [code-challenge]
A code challenge is a competition for creative ways to solve a programming puzzle with an objective winning criterion not covered by other scoring tags (e.g. code-golf).
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Morpion solitaire
Morpion solitaire
This is a game that I remember having learnt from my grandparents in my childhood. Initially I didn't know the name. G B has found it to be Join Five (or less ambiguously - Morpion ...
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Delivery Robots and Destroyer Drones
Program your robots to deliver packages in a warehouse infested with destroyer
drones. Avoid the drones and get your packages to the right place as fast as you
can.
Delivery Robots
There are ...
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Leave a wake of dead cells behind you
Conway's Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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The N Queens Problem, but with Fairy Chess Pieces
Fairy Chess is a sort of generalized chess that allows unconventional pieces. The eight queens puzzle is a classic problem where you have to put 8 queens on a chess board such that no two queens ...
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Turing Machine that outputs pi
Turing Machine Preliminaries
A Turing machine is specified by the following data
A finite set of symbols S = \$\{s_1,s_2,...\}\$
A finite set of states M = \$\{m_1,m_2,...\}\$
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Goldbach's Comet
Back to back challenges I guess. Hopefully this one is more clear than the last.
Background
I was playing around with Goldbach's conjecture, and decided to plot evens (on the x-axis) vs the number ...
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Find the best character arrangement
You want to write your English essay. However, all characters on your keyboard broke other than the arrow keys and the enter key. You want to find out how to place the characters so you can write your ...
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Simulate the isotropic non-totalistic cellular automaton
There are many generalizations of Conway's Game of Life. One of them is the isotropic non-totalistic rulespace, in which the state of a cell in the next generation depends not just on its state and ...
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Minimizing Covering Arrays
This is the followup question to this previous CodeGolf question about Covering Arrays (the details of what Covering Arrays are and how they are formatted at the NIST website are there).
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Alphanumeric recursive meeting
This challenge is about finding the perfect match between your program sourcecode and the output from your program.
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