How about a game for REAL programmers
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Basically, crosswords with regexes.
Actually pretty fun. For a crossword game.
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@cartman82 So far on Experienced 3. Lots of puzzles get trivial halfway through or earlier when you can guess the phrase. There seem to occasionally be too many hints too - maybe it gets better, but I expected something like "oh, we can assume this asterisk means 1, but if we put one of those letters here, it makes this backtrack change that letter before, and that doesn't match the pattern in the other column", not "okay, so going across there can be A or B, and down doesn't have B, so it's A".
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@Maciejasjmj Maybe jump ahead to https://regexcrossword.com/challenges/hexagonal/puzzles/5 or the Hamlet set then?
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Here's the famous/evil one from the MIT scavenger hunt:
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/me liked Untrusted
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@Maciejasjmj said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
when you can guess the phrase
Geez.. I didn't even notice it was supposed to be a phrase....
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Real programmers avoid regex at all costs
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@Jaloopa said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
Real programmers avoid
regexfloating-point divide by zero at all costsFTFY
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@dkf something something
mysql_real_programmer
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I was going through the "tutorial," and this apparently is the correct answer on number 4:
I...think I'm missing something.
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@boomzilla What's up with that?
The first row is "A""
The second row is "A and zero or more B's"
The column is "Zero or more A's"
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@gwowen said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
The second row is "A and zero or more B's"
Ah, right...I'll come back after coffee.
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@Jaloopa said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
Real programmers avoid regex at all costs
But then how would you parse HTML?
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@hungrier I wrote an app to do it. I've had to update it to account for a couple of edge cases but I think it's solid now
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@boomzilla said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
I...think I'm missing something.
So am I.
Edit: never mind. It took me posting this here to notice I wrote a 0 instead of an O.
This is why programmers use slashed zeroes.
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I used to play these a while a go as a way of becoming more familiar with regex.
As you can see, I got pretty far, but I found I didn't really retain much knowledge of regex.
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Oh yeah, I remember this game! It was fun for a day's diversion, skiving off work. Hmm..... I don't have much to do today, why not :D
ETA: Aawwwww, blocked. I wonder why XD
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@DoctorJones Volapük is where the difficulty ramps up quite a lot; you actually have to know a bit about RE matching to solve those whereas most of the others can be guessed. (Hamlet's easier again with a good knowledge of the play…)
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@hungrier said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
@Jaloopa said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
Real programmers avoid regex at all costs
But then how would you parse HTML?
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@MZH said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
Here's the famous/evil one from the MIT scavenger hunt
Day 2. Still not solved.
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@MZH You are evil.
Status:
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I see a cell that can be trivially filled.
Want a hint?
It's down on the bottom.
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One game for Real Programmers, coming right up:
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@MZH I solved that one, or I'm blind to a mistake. I need a new brain while mine recovers.
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@Zecc Got it
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Right out of the gate, the bottom left must be
spoiler
G, because the -- doesn't tell you, the / doesn't tell you, and if it isn't G, the \ doesn't tell you
The top left corner three can be solved by elimination on their own.
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And I've finally had the time to finish it off; the last of the hex puzzles was really quite tricky indeed.
The user puzzle editor sucks.
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@dkf A real programmer would have made a script to download all the puzzles and semi-brute-force the solutions.
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@Zecc But then it's no longer a puzzle, it just becomes work.
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From the TIS-100 guy: http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
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@bb36e said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
From the TIS-100 guy: http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
Everyone in #python-offtopic is playing that. I'll get it when it's cheaper I think.
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@bb36e Rocky's Boots 2016?
It's a game I've always wanted to write myself and never had enough motivation to do so. Fuck you, Zachtronics, for stealing my personal ideas I've never told anyone about!
Really tempted to grab it at full price, though I still haven't beaten both SpaceChem and TIS, so I dunno.
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@Maciejasjmj said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
Really tempted to grab it at full price
And I did - I grabbed Stardew Valley off this Humble Monthly, and the stacked discounts brought the price down to some ten euro.
Haven't had enough time to go through it properly, but so far it looks fun. Very much like TIS, so if you liked that one, you'll love this one. And if you didn't get TIS, you'll probably have a hard time with Shenzhen as well.
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@Maciejasjmj said in How about a game for REAL programmers:
Haven't had enough time to go through it properly, but so far it looks fun. Very much like TIS, so if you liked that one, you'll love this one. And if you didn't get TIS, you'll probably have a hard time with Shenzhen as well.
I almost managed not to buy it, but you just had to ruin my efforts, didn't you?
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The production
AB*
generates an A followed by any number of B's. ButA
is the only thing that fits in the bottom square.The production
A*
generates any number ofA
's. That implies that the top square isA
too.