Questions tagged [rags-to-riches]
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Hack assembler/disassembler in x86_64 assembly language
Starting from this answer I thought I would show a fully worked example of how to create a data-driven version of the assembler for the Hack assembly language. As I noted in that answer, having ...
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C++ Mine Sweeper Attempt
Saw this question and though I wanted to try.
So my version of reading Mine Sweeper: For the Online Judge
Some Utilities Classes
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Scraping OddsPortal with requests only
This is a scraper written to do most of what had been attempted by another user in this question:
How can I optimise this webscraping code
I did the rewrite because I felt bad that the new user didn't ...
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Resizable containers with VueJS
A month ago I reviewed the code in Resizable split DIVs Vue.js, suggesting that the OP use computed properties and bound styles to simplify the code (at least reducing the need to use ...
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Python Rock-Paper-Scissors via a class to handle the game
Original inspiration was by this Python beginner, and it prompted me to rewrite a bunch of stuff with my flair and my Python experience: First attempt: Python Rock Paper Scissors
Okay, so I looked at ...
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Rename files by editing their names in an editor
Inspired by a recent question to rename files by editing the list of names in an editor, I put together a similar script.
Why: if you need to perform some complex renames that are not easy to ...
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Rock-Paper-Scissors engine
Looking over Rock, Paper, Scissors. C++ from a beginning programmer prompted me to think about how I'd program this simple game in C++. The RockPaperScissors class ...
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Multithreaded testing for counting rooms from a floor plan solution
This is version 3 of Efficiently counting rooms from a floorplan. Version 2 is here Efficiently counting rooms from a floorplan (version 2)
It also has a comprehensive test facility that is the ...
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Polishing partitions - Reimplementing a partitionOn
So I've read an F# question on partitioning a list in F# and wondered whether I could cleanly write the concept down in haskell and if that would help me review the code ...
Now I have a haskell ...
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Homemade cyraz encryption algorithm
The "Cyraz" encryption algorithm was presented on SOPT community.
This algorithm makes a cypher using a private key given in byte[] format with any arbitrary ...
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Simple linear equation solver
In working on a review for Solve a set of "restricted" linear equations efficiently, I decided to reimplement from scratch using the method I proposed in my answer.
The application
I won't ...
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Object oriented, runtime expandable Sieve of Eratosthenes
In answering this question, it seemed to me that it would be nice to have a runtime expandable Sieve of Eratosthenes. This is my implementation of that notion.
Design
I've created a class named <...
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Check consistency of statements, with fuzzy rhyme matching (Kattis "Mårten's Theorem" challenge)
I wrote a review for Check consistency of a list of statements, with fuzzy rhyme matching, which basically required me to try writing my own solution to fully understand the challenge. So, I thought ...
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Calculator with history using Java 8
Yesterday, I saw this post from another user: Calculator with history
I started refactoring the code while typing an answer but I end up not posting as an answer because I not sure if my ...
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Accessing properties by name with compile-time typesafety
I've recently answered a question here, where the goal is to mimic some functions from System.Reflection in order to avoid it's direct usage as much as possible, ...
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Locating the largest Collatz Sequence with memoization
Inspired by this question I wrote a memoized form of the collatz sequence calculator.
The idea was to cache the sequence lengths for as many sequences as possible, from 0 to some value. I managed to (...
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Too Many Staff Meetings
I recently got in really deep on a question to find the overlapping meetings and I rewrote a bit of the code and added some things to the code, and I would just like a general review of my code and ...
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Making sure a sentence exists of words in a dictionary
Today on Stack Overflow the following question came
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39393112/find-out-if-string-contains-english-words-only
The question itself has following prerequisites:
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Scrabble tile-counting challenge
While reviewing this Scrabble Tile Counter, I decided to give it a try myself. Here is the challenge, from Reddit's /r/dailyprogrammer:
Description
For this challenge we will be using the ...
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Alternate letters to UpperCase
As an exercise I repeated this Java question, but in Go: Convert string to mixed case
The objective is for every second letter to be converted to uppercase.
Go string processing is relatively new to ...
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Shortest knight path
In preparing a review of this question, I decided to rewrite the code from scratch using a more object oriented approach as I suggested in my review.
To recapitulate the problem statement, we are ...
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Read stdin like a dictator
Rags.
Introduction
All too often I find myself wanting to allow only a certain list of characters to be written to stdin, and only recently did I actually bother ...
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Needle in a Haystack
This is a rags-to-riches of some recent "search word in multiple files" questions, such as this deleted question and this.
The idea here is to do a case-insensitive word (complete, not partial) ...
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A generic implementation of Dijkstra
Here is an implementation of Dijkstra
As an rags-to-riches version of this Object oriented approach to Dijkstra's algorithm
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Multithreaded Mandelbrot Generator Ver 2
Update: Version 3 is here.
My first version was an answer I provided to EBrown for his original post titled "Multithreaded Mandelbrot Generator". My answer had many good things in it, but I felt ...
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What's my personality?
This is a rags-to-riches take on this question, specifically an improvement of my original answer there.
Copying my interpretation of the calculations involved from my answer:
Given a 70-character <...
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SHOUTY_SNAKE_CASED NUMBERS
WE_ALL_LOVE_SHOUTY_SNAKE_CASE_SO_I_WROTE_A_PROGRAM_FOR_IT!!1!
Alright, enough of this. This is a rags-to-riches from this question. The pattern is pretty simple, it takes a ...
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Partitioning a string into chunks
Inspired by this question: Split a string into chunks of the same length
The code is designed to work on text elements rather than chars to avoid unicode problems.
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99 times drunk on Java
This is a rags-to-riches attempt from this question, based on the popular 99 Bottles of Beer, by (lightly) using Java 8's stream-based processing.
Any room for improvement in terms of readability? I ...
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Capitalize the first letter of all words in a String
A rags-to-riches of A method to capitalize the first letter of all words in a String.
To recap the requirements:
Please implement this method to capitalize all first letters of the words in the ...
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Fastest possible text template for repeated use?
While reviewing Sending templatized e-mail to a million contacts, I wrote this implementation to illustrate an alternate approach. It is designed to be the fastest possible way to generate templated ...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard and Spock with OOP
Today I saw an extremely interesting question on the Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard and Spock game. I've decided to take my swing at it and I've written the following OOP implementation:
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Numbers, pairs, and a difference
Problem statement:
Write a function which returns the total number of combinations whose difference is k.
For example, ...
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Twisting words! (boustrophedon formatting)
I decided to implement properly the Code Golf challenge about twisting strings. I report the assignement verbatim for convenience:
Twisting Words!
Given a string and a positive integer. You ...
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Desktop notifications for queue items
I wasn't satisfied with Simon's alert on the orange alert. I wanted to know if even 1 review item was available, so I made some modifications to the userscript so that it runs on the Review page, and ...
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How much time is left?
rags-to-riches of Convert seconds to hours, minutes and seconds.
In that question, BigDecimal was chosen to be the model class, which doesn't seem like a right fit ...
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Checking three values are consecutive
This question was recently asked: Determining if three numbers are consecutive
It intrigued me, even though it was broken. I have the following implementation I thought would be interesting, and I am ...
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Are the words isomorph?
Are the words isomorphs? (Code-Golf)
This is my non-golfed, readable and linear (quasi-linear?) in complexity take of the above problem. For completeness I include the description:
Two words are ...
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Super Market Checkout Pricing Strategies
I saw this question and thought it looked like a great opportunity to try my hand at the Strategy Pattern. I've never used it before, but I think I did pretty well. Did I?
The code below can also be ...
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Project Euler 67 - Max path through triangle
This is a response to this brute-force version where the algorithm was not intended for review.
In this challenge you are prompted to find the path through a large triangular set of numers, similar ...
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Merging word streams from files
A follow-on, rags-to-riches implementation of The most efficient way to merge two lists in Java
The original requirements are to:
Identify the distinct values from two input files, and output the
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Toggling html buttons and text
I went through a question on SO, and optimized the code according to OP's requirements. I would like a review if it is done properly or not.
Here is the code snippet, there are 2 level buttons, when ...
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Project Euler #62 + Java 8 streams
(Inspired by this question)
The digits of the cube, 41063625 (3453), can be permuted to produce
two other cubes:
56623104 (3843) and 66430125 (4053). In fact, 41063625 is the
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Highest pit - only climbing through the pit once
Problem description:
A non-empty zero-indexed array A consisting of N integers is given. A pit in this array is any triplet of integers (P, Q, R) such that:
0 ≤ P < Q < R < N;
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Onion Run Festival (or the unexpected anagram for Union of Intervals)
Original question: Union of intervals
In the original code, the Interval model class implements Comparable so that an input of <...
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Streaming Collatz
Challenge
The recent question The 3n + 1 algorithm for a range inspired me to investigate a Java-8 dependent streaming mechanism for solving the programming challenge:
For any two numbers ...
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Designing another Coffee Machine Application
After reading Designing a coffee machine yesterday, I decided I could also give the same problem a try.
I have used the following problem statement (copied from the given question):
Design a ...
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Finding a word within a pre-defined set using a search string with wildcards
The other day I was intrigued by this question (originally from here):
Write a program that answers YES/NO search queries containing * placeholders. Example: if the data you have is (hazem, ahmed,...
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Let's Break Down the Party
This is a rags-to-riches question, the original is here: Coin dispenser program
There are three parts to this, a Denomination ...
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Palindrome Checker with Stack
In my answer to this question, I wrote a new solution. Personally, I would not use a stack, but given that a stack was required, how good is this solution?
In this solution, I add half of the word, ...
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