Posts tagged code-golf
In this simple challenge, create a short program that takes 2 ints as input, output them, swap their places, then output them again. Those 2 integers can't be the same number. The program with the ...
Challenge What do computers understand? That's right, binary. All files are turned into binary digits when you run them, but what if I suggest giving you an int then turn it into it's binary value...
Given a non-ragged array (an array where all sub-arrays at a particular level have the same length) of non-negative integers, answer its shape, that is, the length along every dimension. You may as...
Challenge Make a program that takes input of an integer that's $n > 1$ and print out a staircase using a specific character for stair basing (hashes (#) for demonstration; you can use spaces,...
Challenge Make a program that takes input of 3 non-negative integers: a result and 2 other values that once calculated results to the 3rd value. The program must figure out how to get the 2 fir...
Task Print the following: ABDFHJLNPRTVXZ CABDFHJLNPRTVX ECABDFHJLNPRTV GECABDFHJLNPRT IGECABDFHJLNPR KIGECABDFHJLNP MKIGECABDFHJLN OMKIGECABDFHJL QOMKIGECABDFHJ SQOMKIGECABDFH USQOMKIGE...
Challenge Given a list of n numbers and x, compute $a + bx^1 + cx^{2} + ... + zx^{n-1}$, where a is the first value in the list, b is the second, etc. n is at most 256 and at least 0. The input va...
Definitions A binary tree is either a null (leaf), or an object (node). A node contains a value (non-negative integer) and two pointers (left and right) to two separate binary trees. A binary tre...
Given an integer n, output the smallest prime such that the difference between it and the next prime is at least n. For example, if n=5, you would output 23, since the next prime is 29, and 29-23&...
Given a list of strings(and optionally, their length) as input, weave the strings together. Intro Your goal is to mimic the WV operator in Pip. Take a list of strings and alternate between their ...
Challenge Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b. (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 ) Exam...
Challenge Given a list of unique colour names as input, sort them in the order that they first appear in Joseph's Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Example Input: green, blue, red, brown Outpu...
Given a string and a non-negative integer $n$, output a new string in which each character is repeated $n$ times. Test cases: "abc", 1 -> "abc" "Hello", 0 -> "" "double", 2 -> "ddo...
Natural to set (set meaning an unordered collection with no duplicates, though answers may use and output lists instead) Recently I was brainstorming what a language with only (arbitrarily nested...
Challenge Cause the currently running program to receive the SIGSEGV signal (on Linux or other *nix systems) as fast as possible. What it does with the signal doesn't matter as long as it receives...
Challenge We all know and love the generic sort function, right? However, it only sorts based off one criterion - what if we want more? That's where you come in. Your task is to sort an array bas...
The task is to create a program which displays a golf score as text. It takes 2 numbers as input, separated by space or new line: The first number is the par of the specific hole. The second nu...
The task Output the first 100 elements of the infamous FizzBuzz sequence. How? The FizzBuzz sequence is the sequence of decimal integers from 1 to 100 inclusive, but: If the integer is divisi...
[Rule 110] is a Turing complete cellular automaton. It is defined as follows: Take as initial value a sequence of symbols that's infinite to both sides, which consists only of two different symbol...
C is a language I use most apart from Python and as someone who likes code golf challenges, what tips are there to golf in C?
Your challenge today is to golf a program to interpret something Turing-complete. You may use any Turing-complete system for this so long as it is not the source language of the challenge - even a...
This is a list of golfing tips for the language known as Java. If you have a tip, add it in!
Disclaimer This challenge also exists in CGCC, but if you want to compete here (too), then hop in! Challenge Recreate "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", using the least bytes possible. Lyrics: ...
Introduction What is the Caesar shift cipher (ROT$n$)? It's basically a cipher sequence that changes a letter's value from the number chosen. If we use ROT1 on "games", we get "hbnft". The basic i...
Run-length encoding is a simple compression technique which compresses sequences of repeating identical bytes. The encoding rules for this task are as follows: Any sequence of $n$ identical bytes...
Given a non-negative integer up to $999\,999\,999$, write it in English. The input number can be in any form other than English (though you'll typically want to use the native integer type of your...
As you might know, there were elections in Germany, and now the parties have to form a government coalition. Let's help them with it! A good coalition has the strict majority of seats (that is, mo...
Jelly has an atom called untruth, which when given indices, creates an array with 1s at those places: [2,4] → [0,1,0,1]. You are required to perform the inverse of this. Given a 2D boolean array, ...
Rules Using your language of choice, golf a quine. A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. No cheating -- ...
Imagine you have only one byte (8 bits) to store a value, but need to store values from $0$ to $4032$. Impossible, until you are also told that an error of 1/64 of the exact value does not matter. ...
If you have any tips for golfing in Python, add them as answers to this post.
Background Inspired by this challenge that is also a mathematical English translator. Challenge Write a program that translates a mathematical expression using English with the following specifi...
Originally from Somewhere Else. I thought I'd continue making more drawing challenges here now that I discovered it. Make the Stack Overflow logo using the following criteria: The tray: ...
The Ludic Numbers are a sequence that pops up when you apply the sieve of eratosthenes to the natural numbers, completely removing the numbers every iteration. Here is how they are generated: The...
Rational numbers in decimal representation can have an infinite periodic part. One common way to write this down is to repeat the periodic digits and then add three dots. Numbers without those thre...
Challenge Write a program that prints its reversed self. For example, if your code is foo() Then it'll output: )(oof Make sure that the quine is a valid one, as defined here: No cheatin...
Challenge Given the roots of a polynomial (that is, the $x$ values where the polynomial evaluates to zero), as an array of real numbers, return the polynomial's coefficients. That is, given real ...
Challenge Make a program that takes input of a string and abbreviate it. All letters of an abbreviation are capitalized, so keep that in mind. Whitespace, numbers and non-English characters ar...
If you have any tips for golfing in Ruby, share them as answers to this post.
Challenge Output the following text: A ABA ABCBA ABCDCBA ABCDEDCBA ...
This is a list of golfing tips for the language known as Philippine Peso PHP. If you have a tip, add it in!
Create a program that gets all perfect squares starting from 0 or 1 without using any methods of multiplication (repetitive addition) and exponentiation (repetitive multiplication). Output them for...
