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Draw the Olympic Games logo

Challenge Draw the Olympic Games logo... ...as ASCII art! Sample Output * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * …

code-golf ascii-art

asked by Adam Maras 71 votes answered by Danko Durbić 122 votes

All Your Base Are Belong To Us (Restricted)

No input required, but output must read "All your base are belong to us". Restrictions No external resources. Plus a minimum of two of the following: You cannot use "a", "b", "t", "u", or "y" in …

code-golf string

asked by WallyWest 38 votes answered by Howard 38 votes

Draw the Heart Shape

Challenge Draw a Heart shape ...as ASCII art! Your art doesn't have to look exactly like mine, but it has to look like a Heart Shape. The inside of of the heart has to contain the words "Love" …

code-golf ascii-art

asked by Computernerd 18 votes answered by VisioN 31 votes

9-hole mini-golf: Text Manipulation

9-hole mini-golf: Description 9 (mostly fairly easy) code golfing challenges of varying difficulty Penalties for using the same language more than once All challenges about a specific theme (this …

code-golf string

asked by Doorknob of Snow 16 votes answered by Volatility 3 votes

***Landscapes***

Objective: Write a program that generates beautiful (?) ASCII-art landscapes and skylines! Your program has just one input: a string composed of any combination/repetition of the chars 0123456789abc. …

code-golf ascii-art

asked by friol 16 votes answered by Volatility 4 votes

Lifetime of a Worm

Terms A worm is any list of nonnegative integers, and its rightmost element is called the head. If the head is not 0, the worm has an active segment consisting of the head together with all …

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asked by r.e.s. 15 votes answered by Peter Taylor 6 votes

The Quickest Fox in the East

In the spirit of Hello world! with NO repetition Write a program that prints the string "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" with optional newline. The entire program must not repeat any …

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asked by Manishearth 14 votes answered by Yimin Rong 29 votes

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Fibonacci function or sequence

Write the shortest code that either: Generates a Fibonacci sequence (either in standard output, or as a stream) Calculates, given n, the nth Fibonacci number (I gave both options in case one is …

code-golf fibonacci

asked by Chris Jester-Young 29 votes answered by jtjacques 22 votes

Is it Christmas?

Challenge Given that Christmas is December Month 12 Day 25 every year: determine today's date, and whether or not today is Christmas. If it is Christmas, you must print "It's Christmas". If it is …

code-golf date

asked by pcperini 12 votes answered by Ilmari Karonen 11 votes

Can you answer these?

Partition a map of water flows

This is a challenge on the internet asked by Palantir Technologies in their interviews. A group of farmers has some elevation data, and we’re going to help them understand how rainfall flows …

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asked by AnkitSablok 2 votes

Find the Largest Palindrome in a String by Removing Letters

Problem: Remove characters from a string to make the largest palindrome possible. Example Input: 3 // Number of lines to test GGABZXVYCCDBA ABGBAD ABC Example Output: ABCCBA ABGBA B

code-golf palindrome

asked by Connor 1 vote