There’s two things I’ve recently started getting back into. The first of these is Project Euler. For those of you allergic to clicking links, Project Euler is a series of maths problems which contributors solve with programming. For example, the first question is “Add all the natural numbers below one thousand that are multiples of 3 or 5.“.
Any language or method is valid so long as you generate the correct answer (barring the method of looking up the answer elsewhere) but the focus most people take is to do it as fast as possible and in as few lines of code possible. There’s even a bunch of people solving the problems in assembly code. New mind please, mine just blew.
It’s a great test of your problem solving skills and a great way to learn new things about your chosen programming language. Do you know how to use BigIntegers or reverse a string in Java? I sure as hell didn’t, nor would I have normally looked it up. Learning!
If you’re at all interested (and not allergic to clicking links) you can find it here. It’s probably about time I showed off some source code.
Colin Chang
Colin Hamilton
Hazel McKendrick
Phillip Geyer
Searra Dodds
