Monday, November 20, 2017

Christmas Assigner Problem

So I just encountered a very interesting problem, and came up with a likewise very interesting solution. Recently, my family has made the switch from everyone getting gifts for everyone for Christmas to each person getting gifts for a single person assigned to them. I volunteered to make a JavaScript auto-assigner that will randomly assign one person to each of us and then privately email each of us with the person that we have been assigned.

(Finished in only 589 lines of code, not including another 420 lines of test code!)

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Comparing and Filtering through Lists of Data

In this tutorial, similarly to the Comma Adder Tutorial, we will be reading in data and then modifying it for output into another file.

However, this time, there will be another file of data that we will compare it with. We will remove duplicates from our output, and we will keep track of those duplicates and output them to another file. So, if our input for the first file is this:

1234567
2345678
3456789

and our input from the second file is this (I've colored the duplicate blue):

8573968
3958396
1234567
3058376

Our first output file will be this (with duplicate(s) removed):

2345678
3456789

and our second output file will be this (the duplicate(s)):

1234567

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Comma Adder

In a similar fashion to my 2 previous tutorials:

http://thecodingtutorials.blogspot.com/2013/01/simple-file-manipulation-in-console.html
http://thecodingtutorials.blogspot.com/2013/01/character-arrays-in-c.html

This tutorial will show a C++ program that takes input from a file called "input.txt" and outputs it to "output.txt", only this time, it will take input like this:

1234567
1234567
1234567

and output it with commas after the third digit on each line like this:

123,4567
123,4567
123,4567