Ask HN: Short Programming Problems

5 pointsmikeboydbrowne10y ago8 comments

I'm a CS student working for an investment bank this summer and I want to make sure that I write a little code (~10min) every day. Is there a book/online list of problems I can draw from this summer

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a3n10y ago

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley...

The classic Programming Pearls is not exactly a book of problems, but a book of ideas.

You can probably examine a few of the ideas and play with them like toys. Toys are more fun than problems.

smt8810y ago

If there's any piece of open-source software that you like and use, maybe you could try to fix some bugs for that? Once you know a project, it's possible that each bug would take only a few minutes, especially if it's new and growing.

It's also a great boost for your resume.

josephkern10y ago

The C Programming Language, Second Edition; Ritchie and Kernighan; has end of section and end of chapter problems that are pretty good. Especially if you want to learn C.

mirashii10y ago

Generally, just searching for CS interview questions should give you a good number of questions which you should be able to spend a short amount of time on daily.

tienthanh849010y ago

http://www.codewars.com/

brudgers10y ago

There is a constant stream of 10 minute challenges on StackOverflow.

jklein1110y ago

projecteuler.net

tylermac110y ago

reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer

Many good problems there regularly.

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