How to solve the ' Lorem ipsum ' Challenge easily??

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:09 am

i don't know how to solve this challenge... please help me and give me hint about this challenge... i'm very confused..

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:51 am

What programming languages do you know?

I went through and separated out each word, then counted each word, using python. I'm not going to tell you exactly how, though.

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:47 am

Actually, i don't know any programming languages... So i need help if anybody want to give me an information to solve this challenge...

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:55 pm

Then I suggest you learn one. If you plan to get any further, you'll need it.

Why not Java? Google up some tutorials.

Loseway · Post by **Loseway** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:03 pm

You only have to find a program in google which counts the "word frequency"

I think to program this by yourself takes much more time than googling for it and a good hacker is fast, right

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:08 pm

When I did that, the all of the online ones were JS-based. Since the sample text is so large, it locked up.

I ended up doing it in a python interpreter. If it was a program, it probably would have been 4 or 5 lines.

Loseway · Post by **Loseway** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:37 pm

Actually i am a complete Noob, who cant program anything laugh* and because of that i use google. programming something by yourself is much better

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Allosentient · Post by **Allosentient** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:39 am

I wrote my own program to do it. If you use C# it can take anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes to write most programs for these problems

Mine was definitely more than 5 lines though

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:19 pm

As I think I've said elsewhere, I balance it. If its processor intensive, I'll use C/C++. But if the time I save from writing it in Python is greater than the speed gained from quality C/C++, I'll use Python (as I usually do).

Occasionally, laziness kicks in and I do it in Python anyway ;p

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:32 am

This challenge has beed solved. The hint is: you only need "word frequency counter" try to googling it.

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