Question

Guys check out http://codegolf.com
this site has great coding challenges..

Answer 1

it seems pretty slow though :(

Answer 2

have you seen Project Euler
http://projecteuler.net

Answer 3

nope..thanks :)

Answer 4

I tried the bottles of beer one and I couldn't get less than 284 (not including spaces) characters... :( The first ranked user using Python used 181. They cut out about 100 words! Good site, it's interesting because it makes you try to think of other ways to do it.

Answer 5

I got 214 characters excluding spaces. How these guys do it with lower than 200 characters is beyond me. :P

Answer 6

Correct that: It's 224, excluding spaces :P

Answer 7

224! Okay I gotta work out another way...

Answer 8

Actually, scratch that too. Damn those plurals!

BTW Joz, watch your code. nottle and bottles make a difference.....

Answer 9

i gave up..after 2 tries..it showed that my output was totally wrong!!
idk what was wrong..it looked all the same! :(

Answer 10

and the proxy errors i get while uploading my solution makes it worse :(

Answer 11

Check your plurals, bottle and bottles are different words. That's what thwarted my first attempts.

Answer 12

Now that just baffles me. What method do they use to count the characters anyway? My word processor says that my entire code has 339 characters, including spaces. Yet the site says that I have 353?

Answer 13

do you know if loading a file is OK? like text = openFile(x.txt) because if so i can cut out song from your code using just that line

Answer 14

whoa!! that should be cheating i guess -_-

Answer 15

you guess, but i don't see it being barred from the rules

Answer 16

I don't know. I mean, we load our script to their site, and I don't see any options anywhere to load an additional file along with the script.

Answer 17

That is a shame, Loading a second file would cut down your code an insane amount