2007 I remember writing one-liner ruby solutions up to 100.
Project Euler
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Re: Project Euler
#32These are both a lot more fun, and a lot more educational than leetcode problems. Strongly recommend for anyone looking for practice problems when learning a new language or whatever.
Re: Project Euler
#33Ha! I did a lot of these around 2007-2008. I solved the first 100 or so ones. Solving these were more fun than any other programming problems site I've seen. I quit it when I realized I was spending 4+ hours per problem - I couldn't justify the time.
Beyond a certain point, most required some knowledge of elementary number theory.
Re: Project Euler
#34I remember it vaguely but there used to be a badge awarded for being among the first 100 people to solve the problem. I was obsessed with getting that badge to the point that I spent obscene amount of time solving the-then recently released problem even when the following day was my final exams. I did manage to get that badge though. This was circa 2013. Fun times!
Re: Project Euler
#35Thanks for reminding me this; I'd try to solve them both in Scheme (s9fes) and JimTCL.
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#36this is how you end up getting into APL/array langs for sure.
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#37One of my best memories was in undergrad there was one semester in 2013 where half a dozen of my CS classmates and I competed to try and solve the most Project Euler problems. We had a leaderboard and everything.
I saw first hand how much faster my friend’s Java solutions were than my Python solutions.
Good times.
Re: Project Euler
#38The most fun on this site is solving a problem and then having your mind blown by solutions in Apl/j/k and trying to guess what they mean without knowing anything about those languages
See also Uiua, a newcomer to the "extremely cool but completely incomprehensible language" family!
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#39The most fun on this site is solving a problem and then having your mind blown by solutions in Apl/j/k and trying to guess what they mean without knowing anything about those languages
Even better than the crazy languages, is seeing some fundamental math used to prevent having to do a ridiculously expensive search.
That said, raw brute force often did far better than you'd like to admit.
Re: Project Euler
#40Ha! I did a lot of these around 2007-2008. I solved the first 100 or so ones. Solving these were more fun than any other programming problems site I've seen. I quit it when I realized I was spending 4+ hours per problem - I couldn't justify the time. Beyond a certain point, most required some knowledge of elementary number theory.
I agree with you. About a decade ago, I got really tired of coding interview prep. I somehow ended up getting into Project Euler and worked through the first 100 problems. It was a great way to learn a bit of number theory and regain my interest in programming.