Several items are noteworthy for this month’s Exercise , with the biggie being how to detect a non-ASCII character. The secret involves a wee bit of type conversion.
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This month’s Exercise is about coding a merge() function, which swallows two arrays and generates a third as output. The new array is “zippered” from the original arrays, alternating values from each.
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I hope you were able to cram a lot of expressions into a for loop statement, which is the challenge for this month’s Exercise. Even if you know this trick, it’s important to understand it’s limitations — which is something I discovered during my research.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to return a file’s size without using the stat() function. My goal is to get you to think about various file tools and how they can be useful beyond their intended purpose.
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The task for this month’s Exercise is to extract a structure member from a void pointer for use in the quick-sort compare() function. This isn’t a solution you can readily find on the Interwebs.
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This month’s Exercise may not seem that difficult, especially given the variety of grid challenges and dimensional array lessons I’ve posted on this blog. Obviously, you need a nested loop. The tough part, however, is generating the grid of alternating colors.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to output the first 100 palindromic numbers, which are integers that reflect the same digits on either side. Rather than devise a complex mathematical equation to determine these values, I cheated.
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I hope this month’s Exercise didn’t terrify you. I remember seeing The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad when I was a kid. The cyclops bothered me so much I asked my mom questions about him for a month.
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I don’t believe one definitive solution exists for this month’s Exercise: Output a string of upper- and lowercase letters. No, the challenge is more to discover different insights a coder has to a specific problem.
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Can you write your own left-pad function in C? Would you get so angry that you’d pull it from the Jenga-tower NPM and bring the Internet to its knees? I hope your answer Yes to the first question and No to the second, because your task for this month’s Exercise is to write that function.
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