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[Sunkwell]

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

It's a collection of riddles you solve with python(really any language will do)
really makes you think outside the box, now with 33 levels(I cleared 3 )
full of awesome

Discuss this, and similar stuff. No spoilers.Please.

[jc6036]

*opens first riddle*
*Doesn't get what in the fuck he's supposed to do*
*leaves site*

How is the first image supposed to be a riddle, anyways?

[Biag]

Spoiler: Instructions for needlessly obtuse riddle (click to show/hide)

The text is 2 to the 38th power, so you're supposed to take that and paste the answer over the '0' in the url.

They seem to get less irritating after that one.

[Sunkwell]

Yes they're all difficult, but boy it feels great when the pieces fall together and a facepalm is inevitable.

[Valid_Dark]

I'm working through them right now,


But the title of the thread reminded me of the atari challenge

http://www.atari.com/pongdeveloperchallenge

I didn't want to make a thread about it so I'm sticking it in here.
Atari is having a indie game programmer contest for an original take on pong, programmed for iOS operating system.

[RulerOfNothing]

Well, if you want something to test your abilities as a programmer, there is always Project Euler.

[chaoticag]

Okay, seeing as I'm still learning python, this is great, but I have a question.

I'm at the second puzzle, but I thought that if I was to solve it in C++,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd have the string converted to an array of characters, then make  loop going through the array, and adding two to each character, as long as the character was a letter, then print the result.

Does anyone know how to do this in python? I suppose I could do it by hand, but that's not the point here.

[Levi]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

list("hello") creates a list ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'], so that is half of it.

[chaoticag]

Spoiler: To levi (click to show/hide)

Thanks, but looks like python doesn't roll that way. I think I'll get back to it sometime tomorrow; there's a lot of documentation to go through, and it might be best to master the basics of string manipulation before moving on to the challenge.

[Skyrunner]

The bad thing about this is that it is too specialized for Python I don't think there is such thing as trans() in C++ ...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Though since it was a Caesar cipher, it was easy enough to make one... or find one )

[chaoticag]

Well, in c++, there isn't a trans function... but you can make a string into an array of characters. Then try this. Make a character variable in C++, and give it a number rather than a character. Say 67. Have it printed, add 2, and print again.

The translate function is basically that.

[Valid_Dark]

Chaoticag, you're making it harder than it has to be,
There are string operators that work on the string class, so you don't have to convert it to a c-style string.

Spoiler: "My Translate Function in C++" (click to show/hide)

void translate(string& code)
{
for (int i=0; i<code.size(); ++i)
{
     if (code<= 122 && code >= 97)
             code+=2;

     if (code >= 122)
             code -= 26;
}}