Questions tagged [multiple-holes]
Used for challenges that consist of multiple sub-challenges ("holes"), somehow combining the scores into one score. (Note: combining multiple unrelated challenges together is off-topic)
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5 tasks in (modified) BrainF**k from the Estonian OI [closed]
Introduction
This challenge appeared in the 2020 Estonian Open Informatics Olympiad and was created Sandra Schumann. I thought it was interesting because it involves symmetry and is quite hard even to ...
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Cat, Quine, Hello World
Write a cat program, a quine, and a Hello World in the same language such that when two specific programs of the three are concatenated in a certain order, you get the third program. It does not ...
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Orientation Oriented Programming
Write a program for a specific language that in different orientations performs different tasks.
Your code should have at least two non-empty lines and at least two non-empty columns and should ...
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Swap program halves to test divisors
Four integer sequences
In this challenge, you will test four different properties of a positive integer, given by the following sequences.
A positive integer N is
perfect (OEIS A000396), if the sum ...
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Golf Practice: CJam [closed]
This is a challenge about the the tricks and optimizations that can be used when golfing in CJam. CJam golfers may recognize many of the tricks involved. However, unfamiliar approaches and constructs ...
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Lists and arrays, part by part
In this challenge, you'll get four different but somewhat related tasks that must be solved in a specific manner. First, I'll explain the tasks, then follows an explanation of how you must solve it.
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OOP: Overlapping Oriented Programming
One of the lesser known programming paradigms which seems rather fitting for code golfing is Overlapping Oriented Programming (OOP) *. When writing partly identical code, many bytes can be saved by ...
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Different tasks, same characters
In this challenge, you need to solve 4 different tasks using the same set of characters. You can rearrange the characters, but you can't add or remove characters.
The winner will be the submission ...
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Print every printable ASCII character without using it
In a programming language of your choice, write 95 programs, each of which outputs a different one of the 95 printable ASCII characters without that character occurring anywhere in the program.
For ...
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Dyalog's International Problem Solving Competition (Phase I) – Code Golf Edition [closed]
Every year, Dyalog Ltd. holds a student competition. The challenge there is to write good APL code. However, this is a multiple-holes (common theme is manipulation of data of any type and structure, ...
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Hi, can you draw some odd art? Bye!
Create a program that outputs "Hi, Hello!" in k bytes. By altering n bytes, the code should output all odd numbers in the range ...
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Make a better score than my students! [closed]
For the last day of the semester, I decided to have some fun with my students and I showed them Code Golf... poor guys, they're addicted now.
The goal was to compete against the other students to ...
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Pyth Practice 2
Time for another Pyth practice. I present here 8 problem statements with a Pyth solution each. These solutions are written by a Pyth beginner. He is quite happy about these solutions, since they are a ...
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No strings (or numbers) attached
If you like this, consider participating in:
The Official Dyalog APL 2016 Year Game
The monthly Dyalog APL 2017 Code Golf Challenge
Make 12 snippets/expressions, in the same language, that result in ...
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Code Billiards (Levenshtein golf)
You must use one language to write programs that perform the following nine tasks, in any order you want.
Convert an inputted number from base 10 to base 36.
Sample input: ...
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The Interview: The Front Nine
The Interview: The Front Nine
This is the first of a series of challenges inspired by programming job interview questions.
You walk into the office where your potential future boss sits. "Come on in ...
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Avoid repeating letters between five simple programs
Your challenge is to write 5 different full programs for the 5 following tasks:
Print Hello, World!.
Given an input on STDIN, output the factorial (you can assume ...
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How's your string theory? [closed]
Back to the basics! You're in you comp sci class again, except wiser and golfier. You have the tools, you have the power… but do you have the skill? Probably.
Crash Course for the non-Computer ...
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Cramming The Gramming - Twelve Task Tweet
Your boss just emailed you a list of 12 programming tasks he needs done as soon as possible. The tasks are simple enough but your boss, being a young software tycoon suckled by social networking, ...
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First code golf decathlon [closed]
Tasks
All competitors try to solve the following list of 10 tasks:
math
Read a positive integer n from input and return the sum of the cubes of the first n non-negative integers.
For input ...
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A Chrestomathy of Obscurity
You should complete four tasks in a language which:
must return no results* when searched for on this (codegolf.se) website, for example ToffeeScript;
must have a page listed at Esolang, Rosetta Code ...
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Pair-golfing Twin primes and the Collatz sequence
This is a new kind of challenge inspired by the Recover the mutated source code problem.
You should write two programs or functions both in the same language. The first one should solve Task #1 and ...
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Golfing the Core [closed]
Note: although this is tagged as Python, other languages are permitted
Challenge
What you have to do is write the shortest functions to perform the same actions as the following Python 2 built in ...
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“Hello, world!” with n distinct characters
Write a series of programs in the same language that print “Hello, world!” using n distinct source characters, where n is in [1..10] inclusive (“distinct” meaning that duplicate characters are ignored ...
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9-hole mini-golf: Text Manipulation [closed]
9-hole mini-golf: Description
9 (mostly fairly easy) code golfing challenges of varying difficulty
Penalties for using the same language more than once
All challenges about a specific theme (this ...
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9 Hole Challenge [closed]
The 9 Hole Challenge
9 code golfing challenges of varying difficulty.
Penalties for using the same language more than once.
The question will be updated with pars, hole champions and trophy winners....
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No branching please
Anyone who is moderately into low level code optimization know about the perils of branching, be it implemented as if-statements, loops or select-statements the possibility of a branch misprediction ...
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