First Go challenge – binary decoding
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Re: First Go challenge – binary decoding
#32Challenge author here. There is nothing Go specific to the challenge itself. I really want to encourage everyone to try solving the problem. If you don't like, know or care to learn Go, try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm or whatever language you want to play with. While only Go submissions will be evaluated and rewarded, I would personally be glad to look at solutions written i…
Thank you for this challenge :) It was easy to solve, but I'm struggling trying to get the design right, also trying to be more robust with the parsing (there are fields that can be interpreted as uint64, int64, int32, uint32, etc). Most of the hex editors available for linux are broken, ghex for example, the "grab these 4 bytes and interpret them as float32" functionallity doesn't work at all. I don't know what peop…
Re: First Go challenge – binary decoding
#33Challenge author here. There is nothing Go specific to the challenge itself. I really want to encourage everyone to try solving the problem. If you don't like, know or care to learn Go, try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm or whatever language you want to play with. While only Go submissions will be evaluated and rewarded, I would personally be glad to look at solutions written i…
Have a couple of clarifications about the problem. Who should I contact about that?
Re: First Go challenge – binary decoding
#34Never worked with binary files before...can anyone give me more hints to work with binary files in general?
Re: First Go challenge – binary decoding
#35Might want to change that one discount code not to be "byfag25."
Re: First Go challenge – binary decoding
#36And the prize for the best go code is... A bunch of books about learning go!
Re: First Go challenge – binary decoding
#37Are there any bonus points for early submissions?