Questions tagged [interactive]
Used for challenges that require user interaction during their runtime
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Visualize Visual Eyes
You may or may not remember Xeyes, a demo program that came with (and, as far as I know, still comes with) the X window system. Its purpose was to draw a pair of eyes that followed your mouse cursor:
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Map inputted ASCII characters
Be sure to see the other challenge, Reverse ASCII character map!
The ASCII charset (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most widely-used character encoding standard. ASCII ...
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Shut down the computer!
Challenge:
In the programming language of your choice, shut down the machine that your code was executed on.
Rules
No shutting down by resource exhaustion (e.g.: forkbomb to force shutdown)
You are ...
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Create a Paint program!
Introduction
One day, you were showing your kid how to draw on a computer. You type mspaint.exe in the run bar. To your horror, it says "No items match your ...
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Impatiently wait for input
Your task today is to implement a time limit for getting input, a task I've found rather annoying to achieve in most languages.
You will create a program function which prompts the user for input. ...
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Insist on an answer
At runtime, keep prompting for a line of input until the user inputs something (other than an empty newline), i.e. does not just press Enter or OK. Output or result is neither required nor prohibited.
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Create a simple line editor
In: a string without line breaks*
Allow the user to edit and submit the line
Out: the modified string (optionally with a trailing linebreak)
The line editor must at minimum allow the user to:
move a ...
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