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Monthly Challenge #1: Palindrome 🔤

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Welcome to Codédex's first ever Monthly Twitter Challenge! This one is created by our SWE Intern, @asiqurrahman. 🙌

Palindrome:

A word, sentence, or number that reads the same forward or backward (e.g., racecar, civic, and 121).

Challenge:

Create a Python function that:

  1. Takes in a string as a parameter.
  2. Checks if it's a palindrome.
  3. Returns True if it is or False if it's not.

Requirements:

  • 📦 Don’t use any packages.
  • 💬 Make sure to comment the code.

Post your program screenshot in the Twitter thread.

And we will pick a random winner by noon this Friday. The prize is a free Codédex tee and bragging rights! 🏆

Update:

We have a winner to the Codédex Monthly Challenge: Palindrome! 🥁...

Congrats to Michael Gonzalez! 🇪🇨

The reasons being:

  • Solution covers string & number
  • Good comments
  • Good breakdown of the functions
  • First to post bonus

Here's the solution:

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Frederik Van Lierde •

Why only Python, why not open to all coding languages ;)

Ex. Solution in C#

public static bool IsPalladium(this string text)
        {
            return text.SequenceEqual(text.Reverse());
        }
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Sonny Li •

True! Only doing it for Python for now since codedex.io only has Python :(

Also, one line answer! 🙌 Shared the the team!

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Frederik Van Lierde •

I adore one line functions ;)

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Liad0205 •

I guess..

def IsPalindrome(txt: str):
    length = len(txt)
    oddOrEven = 1 if length%2 else 0
    return txt[:length//2] == txt[length:length//2-1+oddOrEven:-1]

forTheGiggles = lambda txt: txt == txt[::-1]
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Sonny Li • • Edited

We have a winner to the Codédex Monthly Challenge: Palindrome! 🥁...

Congrats to Michael Gonzalez! 🇪🇨

The reasons being:

  • Solution covers string & number
  • Good comments
  • Good breakdown of the functions
  • First to post bonus

Here's the solution:

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Peter Kim Frank •

Excited to follow along with this thread and challenge series :)

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Sonny Li •

Haha thanks Peter! 🤙

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Jerry Zhu •

So cool! Can't wait to see all the solutions

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Sonny Li •

Let's go Jerry!

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AbubakrChan •

nice

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