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New teacher - 782 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #50 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 5
Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 398 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #59 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 532 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #49 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 4
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 706 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #82 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2540 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #156 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 5
simple replacements - 1749 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #73 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 3
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 324 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #143 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1386 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #188 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 2
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