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But yes, I agree to snibril, solving 50 challenges doesn't proove really _that_ much. I'm from Germany as well and I've also joined after reading the article in c't magazine (which is, by the way, an absolutely outstanding technical magazine, and if you're a non-German speaking nerd there's your re...

Whoa, that IDE looks like some serious amount of work already. You've even picked nice icons. Are you sharing the source code for it? We might want to plug in our own assemblers into the IDE.

I've used the source code to XMosaic.

Zett wrote:My "Surely Smallest Mouse" needs 21 instructions 8)
And yes, sometimes it generates a false answer, like closed source products :wink:

I don't consider that a valid solution.

Overall I found it to be an easy challenge, but the solution word is a joke. Please don't use random character combinations like these for crypto challenges.

In conclusion, I think you don't have to be very nervous on which language to use. Making a dungeon "solver" in Java or C(++) would certainly be a lot more work compared to Python, Perl, Ruby or any other scripting language. This challenge calls for scripting in one of its purest forms, s...

snibril wrote:I did it with a bash script.

Wow, I'm certainly interested in seeing that.

I actually like the explicit "self" in Python. The lack of scoping seems more troublesome in cases like list comprehensions, where I just assume that variables defined in the comprehension won't overwrite globals. I don't see the benefit of the explicit "self". It's something yo...

Now, I am at a loss. I began reading Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby and found it to be an amazing book. It is. Don't be misled by the lightheaded approach (comic strips and all), the author is a true Ruby wizard with quite a few excellent additions to the Ruby world under his belt (apart from that tu...

I've used this website for help (and also Simon Singh's helper, which is kind of similar but with more features; it's also quite buggy, at least under Opera).

Going to have a look at cryptool.

Exiting on "0" is cheating. I think the testing routine should be extended to capture that case (after all, the challenge does not mention that the input array does not contain zeroes). Having said that, here's my solution which works with any input (28 instructions long, and no, I have cu...

I thought gfoot did just the same as your code above does. And it's not the right hand method, I think. No, you are right. Backtracking and Right/Left-Hand methods are different. (Both have in common that they don't necessarily find the optimal solution). The only reason why I've used the depth-fir...

theStack wrote:Well it's not that hard to get access to such a box, there are dozens of sites which offer free accounts :)

Sites that offer free accounts for you to run scripts and programs? I really doubt that. Show me one such offer please.

Apache is very heavyweight - there may be a lighter alternative. But although it's huge, apache is quite easy to set up so I'd just go with that unless you already have something else in mind. Unless you've got Apache installed already (easy under most Linux distributions), there's not much reason ...

Just out of curiousity is it possible to solve these challenges with lisp? In my opinion, lisp is also a good choice if you are already used to it. Lisp is vastly underrated due to its unusual syntax. Many people who know a lot more about programming languages than I do agree that Lisp is one of th...