Weekly Programming Contest

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This sounds like an awesome idea! May I suggest two things:

  1. White-space should not count towards character limit, its not particularly a good program if we can’t read it
  2. Perhaps the first challenge could be a (fully functional) program (with a main method and all that) that reads the amount non-white-space characters in a file?

EDIT: Also, when talking about the “bytes” of the Java program, are we speaking in terms of source or compiled?

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Thanks for the suggestions! Hopefully I answered your questions in the revised post. I also already had an idea for first challenge, Iv’e posted it here: [Week One] Programming Contest - Sorting Arrays

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It would be interesting to see more challenges like the sorting one where there are many possible methods to do the same thing, but in these cases there is no one clear best for fewest characters.

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Yeah, sorry about that. I didnt really think the first one through. The challenge ends in a couple days though so ill be sure to have a better one for week two.

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The challenge for week two has been posted! Check out the challenge Here. The winner for last weeks challenge was @jus1in!

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Congratulations to @simon816 for winning last weeks challenge!

The challenge for week three has been posted Here

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Congratulations to @jus1in for once again winning the weekly programming contest!

The challenge for week four can be found Here

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Congratulations to @Saladoc for winning week four of the programming contests!

The challenge for week five can be found Here

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Congratulations to @Saladoc for winning week five!

The challenge for week six is posted Here

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Congratulations to me! (@kmecpp) for winning my own programming contest!

The challenge for week seven is posted Here

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@kmecpp No link…

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The next challenge has been posted and I’ve updated the reply!

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Congratulations to @jus1in for winning week seven!

The next challenge will be posted shortly

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Congratulations to @jus1in for winning week eight!

The challenge for week nine is posted Here

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The last two weeks were week 7 and 8, not 8 and 9.

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Are you sure? The current week is nine, correct?

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Well so @jus1in already won week nine as well! In two hours! Without posting anything! … Congrats xD
:wink: :wink:

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I see now :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: I think I fixed everything

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Congratulations to @eah for winning week nine!

The challenge for week ten is posted Here

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Congratulations to @CodeCrafter47 for winning week ten!

The challenge for week eleven is posted Here.