Programming exercises

ruby-talk
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows any good programming
exercises, whether it be a website or a download or whatever. I'm currently
going through the Ruby koans (http://rubykoans.com/) but i'm trying to find
other things to cut my teeth on as i'm really just beginning and i want to
learn as much as possible as fast as possible. I've got a couple books (the
latest pickax and the ruby cookbook among a plethora of online tutorials &
books) but i learn better by trial. thanks for any suggestions anyone can
give me!

hex

2

There was a wonderful time, where we would regularly get quiz on this
mailing-list. They are now all archived here with some of the best
solutions : http://www.rubyquiz.com/

3

http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/code_kata_one_s.html

After the koans, I started working on these katas.

Adam

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On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:40 PM, serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows any good programming
exercises, whether it be a website or a download or whatever. I'm
currently
going through the Ruby koans (http://rubykoans.com/\) but i'm trying to
find
other things to cut my teeth on as i'm really just beginning and i want to
learn as much as possible as fast as possible. I've got a couple books
(the
latest pickax and the ruby cookbook among a plethora of online tutorials &
books) but i learn better by trial. thanks for any suggestions anyone can
give me!

hex

4

I found some of the problems on http://projecteuler.net/ interesting,
some are very challenging.

Solutions are floating about too - it's great to see a good
algorithm written down :slight_smile: 'Tis warm and fuzzy.

5

Me too, but in reality, I never need those kind of algorithms, because
I use ruby to mash things together.

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2011/1/10 Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com>:

I found some of the problems on http://projecteuler.net/ interesting,
some are very challenging.

6

Indeed! That is a worthy disclaimer. The solutions to
those problems are not useful.

However, they are good practice at writing difficult programs - to
grow, the mind needs stretched by increasingly harder tasks.

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:58:59 +0900 "Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" <jonas@pfenniger.name> wrote:

2011/1/10 Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com>:
> I found some of the problems on http://projecteuler.net/
> interesting, some are very challenging.

Me too, but in reality, I never need those kind of algorithms, because
I use ruby to mash things together.