Questions tagged [tips]
For questions asking for tips on a specific piece of code, to make it a better answer to a programming challenge that is on-topic on this site. Tag [tips] questions with other appropriate tags, such as [python][code-golf] or [king-of-the-hill].
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Tips for Creating/Maintaining a Golfing Language
Creating a golfing language can be hard. Let's help budding golfing language creators out and provide some helpful tips on how to create one.
I'm looking for tips on:
The design process
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Shortest Solution in Python 3 for Caught Speeding - CodingBat
I am trying to find the shortest code in python 3, to solve this problem:
You are driving a little too fast, and a police officer stops you.
Write code to take two integer inputs, first one ...
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From text to ascii art from CodinGame practice puzzle
On CodingGame, there is a Puzzle that ask to write words with ascii art.
I solve the puzzle then tried to golf it. What improvement can I do on it?
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Is there a shorter way to express this haskell idiom?
Every so often I have a function of type a -> b and a function of type b -> b -> c and I would like a function of type <...
asked Dec 22 '19 at 17:37
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Decode ascii and reversed words sentence
In a challenge of CodingGame, there is a challenge that ask you to decode a string composed by reversed words ('Hello world' > 'olleH dlrow') then each characters converted into ascii value separeted ...
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Parallel resistance in electric circuits in C [duplicate]
What are some tips on how to shorten this code even further? The code is meant to compute the parallel resistance of an electric circuit.
Using scanf
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What is a short code for generating this matrix in R?
I can see that it is 101 'moving to the right' but I cannot think of a short way to generate it in R language.
\$\begin{bmatrix}
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
1 & 0 & 1 & 0 ...
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Simplify the following C ascii graphing function
This wasn't originally intended for code-golf, just as a little debugging routine to roughly visualize something "goofy" going on in a model of some (irrelevant here) physical process. But when I saw ...
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How can I golf this JavaScript code, if at all?
I have some JavaScript code in a <script> HTML tag I'd like to golf, while still remaining in the tag. How can I golf that code, if at all? Here's the code:
<...
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Tips for golfing in MathGolf
What general tips do you have for golfing in MathGolf? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to MathGolf (for tips which can be ...
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Tips for golfing in Keg
What general tips do you have for golfing in Keg? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Keg (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Tips for golfing in 1+
What general tips do you have for golfing in 1+? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to 1+ (e.g. "remove unnecessary ...
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Tips for golfing in MarioLANG
I recently saw this language in a challenge and it's awesome. Does anyone have some tips for code-golfing in it?
Your tips should be at least somewhat specific to MarioLANG.
Please post one tip per ...
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Tips for golfing in Smalltalk
What general tips do you have for golfing in Smalltalk? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Smalltalk (e.g. "remove ...
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Tips for golfing in Grass
What general tips do you have for golfing in Grass? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Grass (e.g. "remove no-op ...
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Convert a string containing integers to list of integers
What is the shortest way to convert a string containing integers separated by spaces to a list of integers?
input : "-3 1 5 8 10"
output : [-3, 1, 5, 8, 10]
I regularly face this situation and I ...
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Print 'A' 1000 times with BrainFuck
What is the best BrainFuck code (in terms of code size) to print 'A' 1000 times ?
My approach is:
set 'A' to p[0]
set 255 to p[1] to display 255 'A', 3 times
set 235 to p[1] to display 235 'A'
This ...
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Generating edge cases in programming puzzles [closed]
Not exactly sure if it belongs in this site, but I always have trouble thinking of all the certain edge cases in any kind of competitive programming or puzzles.
For example, take this kind of ...
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Generate ladder of integers using the least number of unique characters (in C++)
I am new to the sport of code golf. I am trying to generate a ladder of integers using the least number of unique characters in C++.
Let's say we are given an integer 4.
We will generate the ...
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Tips for golfing in Turing Machine But Way Worse
What are some tips for golfing in Turing Machine But Way Worse, a language made by MilkyWay90 and ASCII-only?
Tips should be Turing Machine But Way Worse-specific and not be trivial (For examples ...
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Is it possible to make a clamp function shorter than a ternary in JS?
Imagine this short function to clamp a number between 0 and 255:
c = n => n > 0 ? n < 255 ? n : 255 : 0
Is this the shortest possible version of a clamp ...
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Tips for golfing in Dart
Dart is an object oriented programming language borrowing from both Java and Javascript. What general tips do you have for golfing in Dart? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf ...
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Tips for golfing in Scratch
Scratch is a visual programming language. For the sake of counting bytes, Scratch is usually written in scratchblocks2 syntax.
Post tips that specifically apply to Scratch or scratchblocks2.
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Programming in Bit [closed]
Control flow and tips in Bit
I'm new to Bit, and I'm not sure about how to do certain things like loops, if statements, and other control flow, could someone explain those concepts to me at a ...
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Python: shortest way to interleave items from two lists
I'm trying to get the shortest way (character possible) to obtain List 3.
List 1 and List 2 are already given to me as arguments and are the same length.
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Tips for golfing in TeaScript
TeaScript is a powerful JavaScript golfing language created by StackExchange, PPCG, user Downgoat. TeaScript compiles to JavaScript and contains many helpful features for golfing
This question is to ...
asked Jul 24 '18 at 12:15
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Reducing a Python Script [closed]
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could shorten this program?
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quine program in C using only macros [closed]
Asked on Stack Overflow, but they suggested to move it here
A while ago I was reading about quines. It made me wonder if it possible to write a macro in C which will print itself, without writing any ...
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What's the shortest way to define an anonymous recursive function in Octave?
I love functional programming in Octave, but it's rather unwieldy in practice. I'm wondering about the shortest way to define an anonymous recursive function.
I have some ideas, but I'm wondering if ...
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Tips for golfing in The Powder Toy
Have fun with this one, The Powder Toy is a interesting challenge for golf, especially with filt logic.
The thing that makes TPT a challenge is the many many many many ways to approach a problem: <...
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Perl - convert ASCII art to use x operator [closed]
I would like to convert ASCII art to something that takes less bytes. I have string like this:
my $string = ' ██ ████ █';
And I would convert ...
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How to swap elements in a vector using an anonymous function in Octave?
Swapping two elements in a vector/matrix is very simple in Octave:
x='abcde';
x([4,1])=x([1,4])
x =
dbcae
Unfortunately, I have yet to find a way to do this ...
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Tips for golfing in Sesos
If you have any tips regarding golfing in Sesos, a language made by Dennis, and nobody else has covered them yet, please post them here! Only one tip is allowed per answer. Your tip should be at least ...
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Creating a function over multiple lines
I'm attempting to create a function over multiple lines.
Parameters of the challenge:
Function returns 'barbarian'
Only 2 characters per line
40 lines maximum.
I keep trying to use a fat arrow to ...
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Tips for golfing with numpy, scipy, or pylab
There's already a comprehensive list of tips for python here, so what I'm asking for are tips that specifically apply to using the numpy, ...
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Tips for golfing in Visual Basic .NET
This page is not for Visual Basic Tips
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an multi-paradigm dialect of basic that was developed and released by Microsoft in 2002 as a replacement for Visual Basic. The ...
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Tips for golfing in Visual Basic
This page is not for Visual Basic .NET Tips or VBA tips
Visual Basic (VB or VB6) is an object-oriented and event-driven dialect of basic that was developed and released by Microsoft in 1991. The last ...
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Tips for golfing Yabasic
Yabasic, or Yet Another Basic is a dialect of basic created by Marc-Oliver Ihm that may be run on Windows, Unix and PAL versions of the Sony PlayStation 2. Development for this language is ongoing.
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Help golfing this solution further
We are doing a PCG challenge at work, and I'm submitting answers in C#. This is a modification of the "M'Kay" challenge. My solution has been deemed correct by the requirements, I'm just trying to ...
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Tips for golfing in Clean
What general tips do you have for golfing in Clean? Please post only ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general, and are at least somewhat specific to Clean.
If you've never heard of ...
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Tips for golfing in uBasic
UBASIC is a freeware basic interpreter written by Yuji Kida at Rikkyo University in Japan, specialized for mathematical computing. It is considered to be a "ready-to-run" language that and is capable ...
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How to solve the total task on “return true to win” in 21 chars
There is a site called "Return True to Win" with interesting tasks for Javascript programmers. The goal is to find arguments to a given function that force it to return true.
The following is one of ...
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Number of leap years between two given years (inclusive) [closed]
Is there a better way to calculate the number of leap years between two given years? I want to make my code shorter (in Python). Do you have any suggestions?
Here is my solution:
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Tips for golfing in Husk
Husk is a quite new golfing language, created by PPCG users Leo and Zgarb. It has begun being more and more competitive, often staying close or even beating languages known to be very terse, such as ...
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Tuple addition in pointfree
What is the shortest way we can express the function
f(a,b)(c,d)=(a+c,b+d)
in point-free notation?
pointfree.io gives us
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asked Dec 29 '17 at 17:04
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Tips for Golfing in Standard ML
Standard ML (or golfier: SML) is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference. (from Wikipedia)
Though you almost certainly will ...
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How to improve Ruby code under some restrictions
I'm (still) trying to make another submission to the Largest Number Printable question, and I've got the following bit of code:
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Trying to optimize a solution to a puzzle with PHP [closed]
I got inspired by this: Print every character your program doesn't have
But with the exception that the letters have to be between ASCII 32 to 126. We started fooling around with it at the office ...
