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Code Golf - Banner Generation

When thanking someone, you don't want to just send them an e-mail saying "Thanks!", you want to have something FLASHY: …

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The Skyline Problem‍​​

I just came across this little problem on UVA's Online Judge and thought, that it may be a good candidate …

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Code Golf: Conway's Game of Life

The Challenge: Write the shortest program that implements John H. Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton. [link] EDIT: After about …

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Code Golf: Lasers

The challenge The shortest code by character count to input a 2D representation of a board, and output 'true' or …

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Code Golf: Collatz Conjecture

Inspired by http://xkcd.com/710/ here is a code golf for it. The Challenge Given a positive integer greater than 0, …

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Code Golf: Number to Words

The code golf series seem to be fairly popular. I ran across some code that converts a number to its …

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Code Golf: Print the entire "12 Days of Christmas" song in the fewest lines of code

Print all 12 verses of the popular holiday song. By 12 verses I mean the repetition of each line as is sung …

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Code Golf: Tic Tac Toe

Post your shortest code, by character count, to check if a player has won, and if so, which. Assume you …

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Code Golf - π day

The Challenge Guidelines for code-golf on SO The shortest code by character count to display a representation of a circle …

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Code Golf: Regex parser

The goal Today's Code Golf challenge is to create a regex parser in as few characters as possible. The syntax …

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