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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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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