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"Have a safe trip"… or not, depending on four conditions

I have 4 booleans and all must be met to determine the value of a String: String message = (!isNameBlank && !isDestinationBlank && isDestinationValid && isAmountValid) ...

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asked by silver 15 votes answered by Legato 27 votes

Rock-Paper-Scissors game for learning purposes

I just want your opinions about my code. How could I improve it? Is there a better method to do it? from sys import exit from random import randint print "Welcome to the PIN Game 1!" print "Tell me ...

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A Text-Based Fighter - Like Pokemon

Okay, I'm a newb to programming/Python. To get a better understanding of objects/methods, I wrote a text-based, turn-based fighting game. I want to expand by adding new characters with new moves (one ...

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Python compare every line in file with itself

I am implementing a statistical program and have created a performance bottleneck and was hoping that I could obtain some help from the community to possibly point me in the direction of optimization. ...

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asked by Kenneth Orton 8 votes answered by David Morris 3 votes

Simple calculator with classes in C++

I came to C++ from Java. This is my attempt at making a calculator on about 2 days worth of knowledge. I don't really know what is redundant or unnecessary. Nor do I know of the better ways to achieve ...

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asked by Tony J 8 votes answered by user2471708 17 votes

Next number with the same sum of digits

I recently came across a email bot that would give you random problems to solve. Here is the problem. Please write a function in python which receives a natural decimal N-digit number (1 to 15 ...

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asked by BryanDunkley 8 votes answered by o_o 3 votes

CodeWars mathematical expresion evaluator

I recently wrote the following code for a codewars.com kata for evaluating mathematical expressions. I've been writing ruby for years, but almost everything I do is for personal use and isn't ...

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asked by Zack 8 votes answered by Caridorc 5 votes

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Faster way to convert DataTable to List of Class

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