I hope you didn’t “flip out” over this month’s Exercise. Flipping a coin can be done by hand or by using a computer. Using a computer is easier because it can be programmed to record each flip and it saves you hand muscle molecules for flipping and the chore of writing down the results.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to write the charcount() function, which returns the number of characters in a string. The character matches exactly, so don’t worry about checking uppercase and lowercase differences.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to convert a name from camelCase to snake_case and vice-versa. As usual, several approaches provide a possible solution. The directions were to output the results and not store them, so my solution is rather simple.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to tally the digits in an integer, reporting the sum. You must use math and not cheat by looking at the old solution, which I didn’t. Promise.
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This month’s Exercise challenges you to swap two variables’ values without using a third variable. It’s a solution widely available on the Internet, but your job is to figure out the technique without looking elsewhere.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to output yesterday’s date: the day of the week, day of the month, month, and year. It’s not as complex as it could be, though keep in mind that any code that outputs the proper result is valid.
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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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