hackerrank programming problems

[russ]

This is probably old news but I just found this site called hackerrank.com.

I remember searching for and seeing posts on numerous occasions about where to find good programming problems and there is usually a long list of usuals like projecteuler and past ACM problems, but never seen this one.

So far it seems really good and supports python 2 and 3.

Plus I here there is a competition starting today (i think in about half an hour) but there was something about registering first and I wont be at a computer from now for like a day so won't bother.

check it out

[StormJedi]

Just kinda browsed it, but when you select Python 2, it works correctly and changes syntax.
When you select Python 3, nothing happens.

[ichabod801]

The webpage wouldn't render at work. I'm assuming it's an IE issue, but still. That first question (print as many primes as you can) was just begging for an infinite loop, so I gave it one:

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primes = [2, 3]
print(2)
print(3)
n = 4
while True:
   for p in primes:
      if not n % p:
         break
   else:
      primes.append(n)
      print(n)
   n += 1


That did not run forever, as it should have. Not that I didn't expect a catch for infinite loops, but that would seem to bias the web site against Python. If the check for infinite loops is time based, then for any given Python implementation of the problem you could make a faster C++ implementation with similar code that would print more primes in the given time.

It gave me a score of 1094100 for that, but I'm not sure what that means. When I did an initial test of just:

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print(2)
print(3)


it gave me a score of 200. Maybe that means I printed 10941 primes before the cutoff? It did say I was 35th on the leader board, but the top ten (or four, there were a lot of ties for fourth) were all C or C++.

That was with the Python 3 setting, so it's working for me at least.

[micseydel]

Where's the link for the primes challenge?

[ichabod801]

Where's the link for the primes challenge?

It's on the first page. Scroll down for the description, and then click "Solve Challenge" to get to a page where you can enter code.

[micseydel]

The "first page" for me is https://www.hackerrank.com/algorithm/dashboard and the word "description" does not appear on it. When I scroll down I see a header that says "Progress by Track". "Solve challenge" doesn't appear on the page either.

Rather than telling me how to navigate there, could you give me a link? I tried using the search box at the top and searching for "primes" as well but couldn't find it.

[ichabod801]

https://www.hackerrank.com/

[micseydel]

Ah, when logged in, that URL redirects to the dashboard. I had to logout and view the page to find that problem.