[Beginner] Programming Challenges Index

[LaRoza]

NOTE: The Index has moved and is now maintained here.

These challenges are aimed at beginner and intermediate programmers and are meant to instruct on important programming concepts.

The challenges are determined by the winner of the previous months challenge. If you have any suggestions please post them here we are always interested in new and creative challenges.

[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 1
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 2
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 3
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 4
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 5
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 6
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 7
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 8
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 9
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 10
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 11
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 12
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 13
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 14
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 15
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 16
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 17
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 18
[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 19

[arsenic23]

Hey, you never updated this with Challenge 3.
I was using this to see when it was posted.

[kaatil]

and don't forget to stick this index, all the better.

[thirddeep]

May there be many more challenges !

Thd.

[alberto ferreira]

Can we post entries in bash? Or that just counts as scripting, not programming ?

[LaRoza]

Can we post entries in bash? Or that just counts as scripting, not programming ?

You can use any language.

[cmat]

These challenges are fun. I did the first one on my break.

[snova]

I was thinking a few days ago that the more recent challenges are getting more complicated (databases?). Perhaps we should have more skill levels? Like "Intermediate Programming Challenges" and "Advanced Programming Challenges" and so on.

I also came up with an initial Intermediate one. This can actually be done in nine (slightly tricky Python) lines though, so maybe it should be classified with the beginners challenges instead. Well, it was only an idea...

Objective:

Given a stream of text, find the most common word.

Additional Objectives (optional):

Try to ignore punctuation.

Try to be case insensitive.

[LaRoza]

I was thinking a few days ago that the more recent challenges are getting more complicated (databases?). Perhaps we should have more skill levels? Like "Intermediate Programming Challenges" and "Advanced Programming Challenges" and so on.

They are meant to be done in order, not for perpetual beginners.

[snova]

I was wondering about that. Still, won't the title eventually be inaccurate?

Hmm... I guess one would just change [Beginner] to something else eventually.