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The many ways to skin a `cat` [duplicate]
The well known cat command simply copies its stdin directly to stdout unchanged. But there are plenty of other commandline tools that exist...
What other commands ...
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Meta Obfuscate a String [closed]
There are numerous reasons for trying to obfuscate input. These include preventing decompiling, and being a nuiscance.
With this in mind your challenge should your choose to accept it is to write a ...
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Eiffel Tower in 3D
This challenge asks you to draw the Eiffel Tower in 3D using different ASCII characters to represent the different sides, similar to this cube:
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2D javascript table graphics
The challenge
Make a JavaScript program that can use a HTML table as a canvas, having each cell a pixel.
You can either input the position and color values in a form or by using the console.
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Graphical, networked, two-(human)-player Tic-Tac-Toe [closed]
Create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that allows two human players to play against each other using two networked devices.
Requirements:
Network play.
Program must let both players know whose turn it is.
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I need a program where the user inputs an array of doubles and the program outputs the array sorted
Note: This question was severely edited since I first posted it here. The rules were moved to here, read them before posting any answer to understand the purpose of this. This was the first question ...
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Tic Tac Tae Toe
(Better known as 3D Tic Tac Toe; I just made up a name that sounded catchy ;-) )
Let two people play this game against each other.
Specifications:
Output
the easiest way of explaining this will be ...
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Same code shape and output shape [closed]
I am not sure if this is possible. I have tried it and couldn't make it work at all, but I am being hopeful.
If this is not possible please flag this question and I will promptly delete it.
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Program which tells two different storys [closed]
this code looks like a story but does nothing useful. My challenge for you guys is to write piece of code which sounds like another story but it must generate output - another story.
So the point of ...
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Eight Queens Obsfucation [closed]
You've probably heard of the classic Eight Queens Puzzle. For those of you who haven't it goes something like this:
Position 8 queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten
each ...
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(Re)Implementing Tetris
In the spirit of re-implementing classic video games, I would like to invite the community to create their best implementation of Tetris.
For reference, a screenshot of the official NES version of ...
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Constant output program [closed]
I was wondering how one might go and produce a program that takes input from some kind of random source and uses it to produce constant output. An obvious way is, for example, to take an integer x and ...
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Generate the Stack Overflow logo [closed]
The challenge is to generate an image similar to the StackOverflow logo:
The output must contain:
Image size 64*64 or greater
A gray |__| shaped base
A curved segmented stack coming up from the base....
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April Fools Jokes [closed]
Figure out how to mess up another programmer's project by making a subtle, hard to find (but "harmless") "bug". (Double quotes FTW!)
Try to keep them short; ...
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Add a feature to a programming language [closed]
Your task is to tack on a feature to a programming language, either by implementing a very clever library, or by processing the input text and/or tweaking the compilation process.
Ideas:
Add PHP-...
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Partition of a positive integer N [closed]
Find the number of partitions of a positive integer n. Hope someone uses the explicit finite formula for the partition function defined in Jan Hendrik Brunier and Ken Ono paper here.
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