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Speed Coding Challenges

I'm trying to think of super quick speed coding challenges that can be done in less than 2 minutes.

The idea, is that it's like a timed quiz. Like those timed Multiplication tests they might have made you do in school. Where you start a timer and solve as many problems as you can before time runs out.

I'd like a handful, where the coder is tasked with trying to code a solution in under 2 minutes.

Preferably things that can be done in most common languages. However JavaScript and Python may be the choice for this project.

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Yurui Zhang

I remember there is this game called "You can't JavaScript Under Pressure"

I can't find it on the internet now but that was a fun coding game.

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Shinobi🕹

That's a great lead! And also just an interesting sounding game. Thanks!

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Yurui Zhang

It seems the game has been removed from the internet but you can still find lots of articles talking about it. :) Good luck!

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Shinobi🕹

Yeah the articles give me enough clues I can derive some challanges!

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Leonardo Furtado

Multiplying two numbers using only sums and recursion was another issue that I had the students solve.

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Shinobi🕹

This one I really like because it's scalable. Different numbers mean different solutions.

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Leonardo Furtado • Edited

I had the students do something similar on my programming class mentorship. One of the challenges was Print an hourglass with asteristic.

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Shinobi🕹

Ooo good one! Thanks!

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Milan Radojević

Input << some text
Output >> list of words sorted by frequency