I’ve sunk myself into virtual worlds and escapist fantasies since last September. There was World of Warcraft (a lot of it), fantasy, novels, and the Internet as a whole to run off into while I had my breakdown. It was great. Brilliant. I need to stop now, and get back in line with the real [...]
I wrote code for the first time since last summer, and with coding, comes some fairly hard choices what to do with myself after the summer. I’ve burned a lot of bridges over the last year, burned them very well indeed. College, over the past year, has been a complete loss. I’ve been on time [...]
One of the coolest things in older video games (read: Asteroids) for me was the wrap: The sprite moves off the screen and smoothly appears on the far side. Imagine my crippling disappointment this morning when I started playing around will collision detection and discovered that it is basically eight lines of code: if (rectangle1.X [...]
I did some basic soundtrack-handling last night. I ran into problems getting it to run before I discovered that Content.Load(bar) can only be called from the main class. That was a bit of a pisser, and it forced me to rewrite my class. I am defending its existence on the grounds of potential extensibility. class [...]
I’ve been having way too much fun with these: using System; public class Nineteen { static void Main() { } // Days in one month. Assumes “1-12″ input. static int daysMonth(int year, int month) { int[] a = new int[13] {0,31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31}; int b = 0; if ((leap(year)) && (month == 2)) b = 29; else [...]
Okay, this one was tough. Not in the computation – it took me about an hour to refine and submit my solution once I Googled the algorithm; my real problem was in completely understand the requirements of the question, and what it implied. I looked up the Pythagorean triplet, and the history of it. — [...]
I started here for clarification on the problem’s requirement. I had more problem correctly parsing the input than I did in crunching the highest product (three hours versus two minutes?). :/ — using System; using System.IO; public class Eight { static void Main() { int[] a = numIn(); int b = 0; int c = [...]