Programming Practice Links
Someday, someone ought to make a collection of
programming puzzles, exercises, quizzes, competitions,
and "kata". A longer weblog entry on the subject
is called for, but meanwhile, here are just a few
annotated links.
Blog entries
Quizzes
Books/exercises/examples
Exercises and examples from [text-]books about programming
can be a nice source for trying out a set of
"small enough" problems in a new language.
Translate the examples into your new language, or
solve the exercises.
Public Programming Contests
small games
At a previous employer, a co-worker posted (on an internal weblog,
I believe) a description of a game "Ministers and Assasins" that he
wanted to see someone implement/analyze. Google gives me zero hits
for the quoted game name, so I guess it's lost. But there are
tens of thousands of games to consider implementing. A few
that are small enough to fit into the kind of exercise I have in
mind would be games like sprouts or life, tringo, tetris, etc.
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