List of Programming Challenges

This is a list of programming challenges, both past and present with most of them being the monthly challenge.
C/C++/C#
35 Articles in: Try a Programming Challenge in C, C++, C# and Go
Black Box Reflections
Programming Challenge 69 - Black Box
This is the page for the Sixty Ninth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++, C# or Go that analyzes beams shot into a black box and deduces the location of mirrors.
Programming Challenge 66 - Solve a jigsaw puzzle
This is the page for the Sixty Sixth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++, C# or Go that solves a jigsaw.
Programming Challenge 53 - Decode Morse Code
This is the page for the Fifty Third Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that takes a file of morse code encoded as 0 and 1 and decode it to English text.
Programming Contest 39 - Calculate Levenshtein Distance
This is the contest page for the thirty ninth Cplus programming contest. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that calculates the Levenshtein distance between 100 word pairs.
Programming Challenge 24 - MineSweeper Redux
This is the challenge page for the twenty-fourth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that takes an input file based on the MineSweeper game and outputs where the mines are located.
Programming Challenge 23 - Reassemble Numbered Tiles
This is the challenge page for the twenty-third Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that reassembles numbered tiles.
Programming Challenge 22 - Make Hexagons
This is the challenge page for the twenty second Cplus programming challenge. Write an application that can generate hexagons and convert coordinates.
Programming Challenge 21 - Data preparation
This is the challenge page for the twenty first Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can read excel .xls files.
Programming Challenge 20 - Sieve of Erathostenes
This is the challenge page for the twentieth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can generate the prime numbers up to a million
Programming Challenge 19 - Fill a Grid of Tiles
This is the challenge page for the nineteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can read a file of tiles and by changing the character of the top square fill the whole grid.
Programming Challenge 18 - Generate a Map
This is the challenge page for the eighteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can generate a map.
Programming Challenge 17 - Implement Life
This is the challenge page for the seventeenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can play Life quickly.
Programming Challenge 16 - Solve 1,000 Sliding Puzzles
This is the challenge page for the sixteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can solve 1,000 sliding puzzles.
Programming Challenge 15 - Generate a Dungeon
This is the challenge page for the fifteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can generate a dungeon of nine levels made up of rooms and corridors..
Programming Challenge 14 - Multiply Big Numbers
This is the challenge page for the fourteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can multiply several pairs of very large numbers together..
Programming Challenge 13 - Best Battleships Algorithm
This is the challenge page for the thirteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to sink all the enemy ships in Battleships in the minimum number of shots.
Programming Challenge 12 - Find the Lowest Cost Route
This is the challenge page for the twelth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to find the lowest cost route between ten points on a map.
Programming Challenge 11 - Find Matching Sets of Cards
This is the challenge page for the eleventh Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to find matching sets of cards from the commercial card game Set.
Programming Challenge 10 - Hide Text in Plain View
This is the challenge page for the tenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to take a short sentence and somehow conceal it in a block of text so it isn't apparent. You must also write the decoder as well!
Programming Challenge 9 - Manage a Data Structure
This is the challenge page for the ninth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to read 50,000 words and values in memory and then retrieve 10,000 of those values and add them up.
How Do I write a Bot for the Stock Trading Challenge?
An article describing how to write a bot for the Stock trading Challenge and weekly contest
Programming Challenge 8 - Score Poker Positions
This is the challenge page for the eighth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to score 1,000 Texas Holdem Poker positions showing which of 8 players' hands is highest (or drawn).
Programming Challenge 7 - Now Completed
This is the challenge page for the seventh Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to validate 10,000 chess positions, indicating whether a position is valid or not.
Programming Challenge 6 - Now Completed
This is the challenge for the sixth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to fetch a value from a linked list as fast as possible.
Programming Challenge 5 - Now Completed
This is the challenge for the fifth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to fit 14 words into a grid leaving as many empty spaces in the grid as possible.
Programming Challenge 4 - Now Completed
This is the challenge for the fourth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to solve a code breaking puzzle in as few steps as possible.
Programming Challenge 3 - Now Completed
This is the challenge for the third Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to manage three elevators in order to minimize customer waiting and travel times.
Programming Challenge 2 - Now Completed
This was the challenge for the second Cplus programming challenge. To write an application in C,C++ or C# to count the number of connected locations (forming a continent) and output the list of continents.
Programming Challenge 1 - Now Completed
This is the challenge page for the first Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to calculate the 100000th number in the sequence from 123456789 to 987654321 where each digit occurs only once.
How Do I write a Bot for the Rock, Scissors and Paper Challenge?
An article describing how to write a bot for the Rock, Scissors and Paper Challenge and weekly contest
Programming Challenge 70 - Artillery shoot
This is the page for the 70th Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++, C# or Go that scores the most from ten shots.
Entering the Google Ant AI Challenge plus problems encountered entering a C# Bot
Entering the Google Ant AI Challenge, a discussion on what's needed and the problems encountered.
Programming Challenge 73 - Domino Identification
This is the page for the 70th Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++, C# or Go that identifies a set of dominoes from a text file of numbers.
Programming Challenge 70 - Artillery shoot
This is the page for the 70th Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++, C# or Go that scores the most from ten shots.
Audio Lectures on Programming Challenges from Stony Brook University
These audio lectures are derived from the course "Programming Challenges" taught at Stony Brook University and based on the book Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual by Steven S. Skiena and Miguel A. Revilla, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.
View More