Questions tagged [beginner]
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Implementation of Scytale cipher (encryption and decryption)
This is web exercise 3.1.41. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
The scytale cipher is one of the first cryptographic devices used for
military ...
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Contact form with spam-prevention - follow-up
Background
The basics of this project are already covered here.
I received the suggestions to:
not create the exercise with JavaScript.
use pictures instead of plaintext.
I tried to implement the ...
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Implementation of glass filter for images
This is exercise 3.1.39. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Write a program that takes the name of an image file as a command-line
argument and ...
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Print a word, one character per line, backwards
I have a problem that I solved in 2 different ways and I would like to know which one is better, cleaner and easier to read.
Problem:
Write a while loop that starts at the last character in the
string ...
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Calculating the Shannon entropy of a string (e.g. E. coli genome)
This is exercise 3.1.34. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
The Shannon entropy measures the information content of an input
string and plays a ...
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Xero API Client in Django
I'm not actually that new to writing Python. But I've no formal training and have only learnt to build applications to solve problems for my job out of necessity. Starting to bring my existing skills ...
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Implementation of Kamasutra cipher
This is exercise 3.1.31. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Write a filter KamasutraCipher that takes two strings as command-line
argument (the key ...
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Turning a grayscale image into a histogram of the intensity of the pixels of that image
This is exercise 3.1.4. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Write a program that takes the name of a grayscale image file as a command-line argument ...
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Memory/Time usage on substring search code
I have implemented a substring search, which works as expected and provides the right output. On some edge cases tho, I get either Memory or Time limit exceeded because:
the string length is too big
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Display user detail utility
I currently have a utility that will display details about a list of specified users. In its current state I don't use any functions, which I've noticed make it a little more repetitive than I would ...
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Beginner's Number Guessing Game
I've started learning to program, and as the first program I wrote on my own I wanted to come up with a number guessing game - the below is what I got.
I'm mainly looking for a review of my ...
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Simulation of Conway's Game of Life with periodic boundary conditions
This is exercise 2.4.20. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Implement a class that simulates Conway’s Game of Life.
One thing to note: I did not ...
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GUI to load/save player information in database
I've started programming using Python two months ago. My only prior programming experience was VBA. I'm completely self taught. I wrote the code below for a project I'm creating as a way to learn the ...
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Write a recursive function that takes a positive integer n and plots an N-by-N Hadamard pattern where N = 2^n
This is web exercise 2.3.20. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Write a recursive program that takes a command-line argument n and
plots an N-by-N ...
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Contact form with spam-prevention
Idea
After a handfull of small javascript-projects, I also wanted to work a bit with php now. I decided to create a simple contact-form. Of course, I wanted it to be as spam-save as possible, so I ...
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Reorder the Columns in a CSV File in Descending Order
I wrote a script to reorder the columns in a CSV file in descending order and then write to another CSV file. My script needs to be able to handle several tens of millions of records, and I would like ...
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Ruby Hangman Game
I'm still new to coding and self-taught. If anyone could take a look at my code for my Ruby Hangman game and give any tips or advice whatsoever, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to improve!
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Automate the Boring Stuff – Chess Dictionary Validator – Optimal Solution
Brief introduction: so the point of the question is that the author doesn't really talk about good or bad code quality and I really wanted some feedback to have a grasp of how the code for others to ...
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Printing Gray code through modifying Samuel Beckett's stage instructions
This is exercise 2.3.24. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Modify Beckett to print the Gray code.
Beckett refers to the following program within ...
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Simple Python Login
i have made simple python login nothing impressive but i have the feeling that i could have done it differently.
I saw some people saying that i should use text files but i tried and i didn't quite ...
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Android text to speech app
Since I am trying to learn many programming languages, I created this simple Android app. What it does basically is taking a sentence phrase from an EditText ...
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LeetCode 146: LRU Cache (Go)
Posting my code for LeetCode's LRU Cache, if you'd like to review, please do so, thank you for your time!
Problem
Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. It should ...
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Improving a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) generator
I am new to coding and looking for a few pointers on how I can improve my first project.
At work, I often need to create Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBI) when creating test patients with ...
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Discord bot file requirement and object instantiation d20pfsrd follow-up
I have written a series of parsers for a discord bot that each reside in classes in their own files. Each parser class has 3 functions, 2 of them are for generating the response to the discord message ...
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Programmatically close optical drive tray
I really liked the close tray program that CD-ROM drivers programs used to include in MS-DOS days.
Since I live in a place where even getting an internship is impossible, I've decided to learn by ...
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Poker Game: Building a console menu
I'm working on a menu for my poker game console app. I've conceptualized the menu(s) as a class with menu items that have their own position. I would like to get pointers on how I could improve on ...
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My first game - Arkanoid
I'm new to java and I have just finished my very first game - Arkanoid. I would appreciate, if anyone could look at this and tell me some advice and tips how can I optimize my code. Thank you. :)
I ...
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Oauth2 Connector Frappe Framework
My first attempt at writing a Python application to solve a real problem is a one way connector between ERPNext and MYOB AccountRight.
This is the module I have written to connect to the API and get ...
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Finding even or odd numbers
I'm looking for critiques to see what I could have done better or different ways I could approach writing a script for finding even or odd numbers. I am new to programming with JavaScript, and ...
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C Implementation of atof
I'm a beginner at C.
I'm currently implementing atof to build a raytracer, however I'm still learning how to efficiently write programs.
Assignement
Instructions
The program takes a scene description ...
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Update UNIX-like system user profile picture with its GitHub account's one
Seeking to learning and have fun, I wrote out this script (what I expected to be) self explanatory and would appreciate some comments on that.
I published it as a gist and tried to do my best on what ...
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LeetCode 310: Minimum Height Trees
Posting my code for a LeetCode problem, if you'd like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
For an undirected graph with tree characteristics, we can choose any node as the root. ...
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Reverse the words, move the vowels and downcase everything
I'm brand new to Ruby.
The function takes in a string of any number of words, and reverses the order of the words. Also, for each word, it takes the vowels and moves it to the end of the word. It also ...
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Ruby Mastermind game project with AI
I'm self-learning and pretty new to coding and created a Mastermind game in Ruby.
Any general feedback or advice whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.
The game is completely functional right now, ...
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Pong and Breakout games
So I have made 2 games without any internet when on vacation. I have used turtle because I did not install pygame. I was wondering how I could improve my games. Here is the code:
Pong:
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Python Blackjack
A simple terminal blackjack game written in Python.
Follows basic blackjack rules: Blackjack pays 3 to 1, Hit, Stick, Double Down and Splits
Dealer hits until 17
Keeps track of some data
Wrote it for ...
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Largest odd number
Ask user to input 10 integers and then print the largest odd number that was entered. If no odd number was entered, print a message to that effect.
I've been trying to solve this problem with python ...
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Structuring Service and DAO Layers in Go
I am having a bit of difficulty in designing my Go code.
I'll try to demonstrate things with a very simple example of adding a new user to the database.
My Handler is only doing one thing: Calling a ...
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Python code for UNO Game
It's my first time here, so please accept my apologies in advance if something is wrong with my approach to asking.
I've been learning Python for a couple of months and I decided to have a go at a ...
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Binary to Decimal conversion program
I am a beginner in Python and I have written a program to convert binary numbers to decimal. It works, but are there any ways to improve the code and make it better?
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Coin Flip Streaks - correct streak condition
This is a practice task from Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I imagine many others have asked for their version of the solution to be checked, so I apologise beforehand for boring you yet ...
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Calculate sum of multiple series within array
The exercise is as follows:
Player A will write list \$ a \$ consisting of \$ n \$ numbers. Player B will take a look at the paper. After that the A player will ask player B \$q\$ questions. Each ...
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My first C# project - Simple bird of prey identification console app. Does it need refactoring or complete rewriting?
this was my first thing i made on my own without any help. im sure theres a lot of improvement that could be made, i dont feel too confident about this. how can i make it shorter and more efficient? ...
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Python program for healthy schedule
Please review my program and give some tips . I am a beginner. IT is for those people who sit on computer all day and get unhealthy . This will remind them to do eye exercise , physical exercise and ...
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LeetCode 1206: Design Skiplist
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem. If you'd like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Design a Skiplist without using any built-in libraries.
A Skiplist is a data ...
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Dijkstra's implementation in rust
I would like to get any feedback about my implementation of Dijkstra algorithm in Rust following this youtube video.
Please be aware that this my first code in Rust as well as my first Dijkstra ...
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Buffered and unbuffered cat(1) implementation
I reimplemented cat(1) for fun. I followed the Open Group Base Specifications (Issue 7, 2018 edition), not the GNU variant and its command line arguments.
Buffered ...
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User guesses the number generated by computer
This is my code, which chooses a random number from 0 to 10 for the user to guess.
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Simple console calculator in python
I am new to python, I made a calculator but I need to make it calculating unlimited numbers and to shorten the code more, how can I improve it?
Any help is appreciated.
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Tips on my LIFO java code
I've been trying to learn java recently and I finally finish my first code. Any suggestions on where I can improve? Also, is it possible to send an argument to a class using something like an init ...
