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Advanced Code Golf - Disk Operations, and File Allocation
Good Afternoon Golfgeneers.
This is reasonably long and detailed question. Given what it was asking, it needed to be. If you have any questions, please ask them. If there is anything that isn't ...
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Calculating Resistance (Nerd Sniping)
Good Afternoon Golfers,
Our challenge for today is inspired by XKCD comics 356 and 370. We're going to write a program to calculate the resistance of a group of resistors. A forewarning that this is ...
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Drawing 3d nets - Archimedean solids
I have a weakness for 3d nets which when cut out and folded allow you to make 3d shapes out of paper or card. The task is simple, written the shortest program you can that draws nets for the 13 ...
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Breakout in half an hour
When I was a young teen I had a very boastful friend who claimed he could code up breakout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)) in half an hour. Half an hour later he had done a great ...
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Emulate an Intel 8086… COMPLETELY [duplicate]
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Emulate an Intel 8086 CPU
I know that there already is a code golf for this, but that one didn't require much. This one, however, is for masochists only! >:) OK, you ...
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Write a program that is valid after circular character shift
Potentially very difficult, but I've seen some amazing things come out of this site.
The goal is to write a program, in any language, that does whatever you want. The catch is that the program must ...
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Use NVM to tenaciously resume operation whenever aborted
We'll be trying to write a program that remembers what it has been doing so far and continues towards its goal if aborted an re-run. This is a tenacious program. It will be using a Non-Volatile Memory ...
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Code Golf: Make a Web Crawler
A Web Crawler is a program that starts with a small list of websites and gets the source code for all of them. It then finds all the links in those source codes, gets the website it links to then puts ...
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Build an Authenticating SMTP Client
The basic parts of SMTP can be implemented in surprising little code. I was able to build an example SMTP client that works with Gmail and Amazon SES in about 320 characters using PHP.
Your task is ...
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Emulate an Intel 8086 CPU
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Postscript from luser droog
C++ from
JoeFish
Javascript from entirelysubjective
C from RichTX
C++ from Dave C
Haskell ...
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Shortest Way of creating a basic Space Invaders Game in Python
Hello all code golfers:
Your challenge is to create a basic version of Space Invaders in Python
Rules
Program must be not written in Py3K
All levels must be randomly generated
There must be a HUD ...
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Advanced Code Golf - Write a small HTTP server
Your challenge is to write a code-golf HTTP server that accepts GET requests. It obviously doesn't have to be fully featured, but it must serve files from a directory.
Rules:
The HTTP server must ...
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Plant a tree and watch it grow
The trees we are growing have some rules that define how they grow:
Growth Rules:
Trees consist only of branches.
Branches are made up of a combination of the following symbols: _, \, |, /, & ...
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Self-Interpreting Interpreter
Based on a comment by George Edison to this question, write the smallest self-interpreting interpreter.
You may use the language of your choosing.
Empty languages do not count. Your program must be ...
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Self-compiling compiler
This is based on a talk on compilers I listened to a while back, but I unfortunately can't remember when or where.
Create the shortest compiler in any language that can compile itself. Target any ...
