The nifty thing about this month’s Exercise is that so many solutions are available. In fact, I found the challenge engaging because I kept trying to think of other ways to solve the puzzle.
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The key to creating a calendar is to know on which day of the week the first of the month falls. This datum can be extrapolated from any other day of the month, as long as you know on which day of the week it falls.
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Yes, it’s possible to code a program that counts in alphabedecimal from AAAA to ZZZZ without using nested loops. You must use a single loop, of course, but no cheating as shown in the original Exercise post.
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The solution for this month’s Exercise is perhaps a bit trickier than you may have anticipated. The issue is to set the first letter of a word as upper case and the remaining letters lowercase. The solution I devised involves reading two characters at a time.
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The solution to this month’s Exercise is similar to code I’ve presented in my books and in this blog with regards to randomly drawing from a fixed set of elements. Yet it has an extra level of complexity.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to write code that counts repeating letters in a string. For example, the string “Hello, this is a test” repeats the letters T and S three times, letters E, H, I, and L twice, and the letters A and O appear only once.
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The puzzle for this month’s Exercise was to create and fill a 20-by-20 character grid with 20 asterisks placed at random positions, no two asterisks in the same spot. I hope you found this Exercise interesting, but not too easy.
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I’ve tackled the leap year program on this blog before. My Month Program series addressed the issue specifically. That code offers the february() function, which returns 28 or 29, depending on whether the current year is the leap year.
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Your task for this month’s Exercise is to take a timestamp string and move values from inside a string (characters) into a structure. It’s not an easy exercise, and it doesn’t have a single, best solution.
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Your task for this month’s Exercise is to code a text-processing routine that interprets the ^ character as a toggle for all-caps output. This challenge can be difficult, depending on how you interpret the toggle.
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