Programming Challenges

[Sparta]

I recently completed a programming Matlab for Engineering class and learned of the broad world of challenges programming has to offer. Those that play games, you know what it's like to find a challenge, defeat, and conquer. So in this thread the idea is to come up with a programming idea, see who comes up with the best code, and show off your skills. There are 2 challenges I heard from a friend who took advanced computer programming classes at some university, and he suggested 2 of them in which he did not get a decent grade(even though they worked). First challenge, write up code for a sudoku puzzle, in less than 70 lines of code. Second, write up a program that lets the user open a program like paint on the computer, draw a bunch of lines connected to eachother, and have the computer take some kind of form, and follow those lines like a maze going from start to finish, in under 70 lines. I honestly have no idea where to begin with these so I can't give you any hints. Post code here.

[Sparta]

Code can be any language, or pseudocode.

[Walsingham]

I approve of your thirst for challenge.

 

I'm trying to think of suggesting something I won't steal for work after you've done it.

 

How about a search results reprocessor. Something that chomps up Google results and reprocesses them according to some sort of superior metrics? then you can do it and probably sell it to Google afterwards?

[Humodour]

Code can be any language, or pseudocode.

 

And yet there is a 70 line limit?

[Walsingham]

70 lines...

[Moose]

I don't really understand what you mean in the 2nd problem "have the computer take some sort of form".

[Humodour]

I approve of your thirst for challenge.

 

I'm trying to think of suggesting something I won't steal for work after you've done it.

 

How about a search results reprocessor. Something that chomps up Google results and reprocesses them according to some sort of superior metrics? then you can do it and probably sell it to Google afterwards?

 

Regexps.

[Walsingham]

I approve of your thirst for challenge.

 

I'm trying to think of suggesting something I won't steal for work after you've done it.

 

How about a search results reprocessor. Something that chomps up Google results and reprocesses them according to some sort of superior metrics? then you can do it and probably sell it to Google afterwards?

 

Regexps.

 

Gezundheit

[Humodour]

I approve of your thirst for challenge.

 

I'm trying to think of suggesting something I won't steal for work after you've done it.

 

How about a search results reprocessor. Something that chomps up Google results and reprocesses them according to some sort of superior metrics? then you can do it and probably sell it to Google afterwards?

 

Regexps.

 

Gezundheit

 

Keke!