Top new questions this week:

Keeping track of the tennis score

I'm trying to get hired by some company and they gave me a simple remote test to take at home so they can judge my coding skills. It's a really simple problem. It's based on the website HackerRank. ...

c++ interview-questions

asked by Philippe Balleydier 19 votes answered by Loki Astari 36 votes

'Game of Life' in C#

Unrelated to code: I have only been programming for three weeks, and this is my first project. About the code: Uses a preset grid. It was all done on a single page. This, I realise, was a ...

c# beginner game-of-life

asked by Ikm 12 votes answered by dmoonfire 11 votes

Telling me what lesson I have tomorrow and emailing me the results

This program tells me what lessons I have tomorrow then emails them to me. This program works fine, but I was wondering whether there is a way to simplify the script or make it more efficient. I have ...

python python-3.x email

asked by Samuel Terrett 9 votes answered by Graipher 10 votes

Object-oriented dungeon crawler game

I am creating a simple dungeon crawler game. My program runs and does what I want it to do so far, but I am starting to run into difficulty with adding new functionality, and I think one of the main ...

c# oop role-playing-game

asked by Iceape 8 votes answered by Eric Lippert 15 votes

The veiled guise of binary and string

Challenge Conceal a binary code within a word. Specifications The first argument is a path to a file. The file contains multiple lines. Each line is a test case represented by a space separated ...

beginner c strings programming-challenge

asked by Legato 8 votes answered by vnp 9 votes

Hangman in stateless JavaScript

I just want some feedback to improve readability and structure for this implementation of Hangman. The goal was to write it in a purely functional way. However, coming from an imperative background, I ...

javascript functional-programming hangman

asked by Pete 7 votes answered by konijn 3 votes

Automated backup of remote git repos

This is the first python script I've written. It's used to create a local backup of git repos from BitBucket. It works, but I'd like to make it more pythonic if possible. """ Script to check ...

python beginner python-2.7 git

asked by movieglass 7 votes answered by Quentin Pradet 2 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Snake game using PyGame

I wrote a simple Python snake game which is about 250 lines of code. Can someone give me some advice on how I can refactor/make it better? game.py # game.py - 3/22/2013 import pygame, sys, os from ...

python array pygame snake-game

asked by Ryan 14 votes answered by Gareth Rees 21 votes

A* search algorithm

NodeData stores all information of the node needed by the AStar algorithm. This information includes the value of g, h, and f. However, the value of all 3 variables are dependent on source ...

java algorithm search graph pathfinding

asked by JavaDeveloper 18 votes answered by amon 15 votes

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Parser for an bifurcation analysis tool

So during my thesis I used xppaut quite extensively. In the end there were some minor problems and I decided to have a look at the code, which was just released at github. So after 30 years of on and ...

c++ parsing math-expression-eval

asked by miscco 3 votes

Grid displayer: Game of Life and Langton's Ant

Re-use Given that both the Langton's Ant and the Game of Life use a grid, I decided to code a generic grid_diplayer code and use it both for GoL (Game of Life) and Langton's Ant to put into practice ...

python python-2.7 game-of-life pygame cellular-automata

asked by Caridorc 5 votes

Auto-INSERT query for NLog

I use NLog everywhere and I really don't like writing the inserts everytime. You need to write the same variable three times: two for the insert and one for the parameter for example: <target ...

c# logging t-sql

asked by t3chb0t 2 votes