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Revision as of 05:15, 2 March 2011
Challenges
Do Barry Newell's 40 shapes challenge [1]
Do Daniel Ajoy's Geometry Exercises [2]
Mike Leishman's 10 Green Bottles Competition.
The idea is that you write a program to display the words of the song "10 green bottles" [3]
Can you get the computer to sing in tune using the espeak -p option
Mike Leishman's Guess the Number
Write a guessing game computer program. It must ask the user to guess a secret number between 1 and 100 and continue until the secret number is guessed. If the user guesses the wrong number, display a message stating that they are too high or too low such as "Bad Guess – Too High - Try again". Make your program count the number of guesses taken. When the user guesses the correct number, display the Message "You guessed it in <number of guesses> guesses" and stop the program.
Extension: You can also provide the user with other information such as “cold”, “warm” and “hot” depending on how far out their guess is. [4]
Generating numbers
Calculate the values of pi [5] and e [6], find the prime numbers up to 1000
How many different ways can you do it?
How fast can you do it?
Pizzas
Write a program to solve: A small pizza costs 120 pesos. A large pizza costs 160 pesos. You spent 920 pesos in total. How many small and many large pizzas have you bought? [7]
Project Euler [8]
Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.