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Programming Challenge 27 - Pack them In!
This is the challenge page for the twenty-seventh Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that packs a large number of points in a grid (representing cities in a game).

Programming Challenge 28 - An Optimization Problem
This is the challenge page for the twenty-eight Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to optimally move a large quantity of fuel across a desert.

Programming Challenge 26 - Text Processing
This is the challenge page for the twenty-sixth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that processes a large body of text, counting words and sentences.

Programming Challenge 25a - Fit tetris shapes in a Box
This is the challenge page for the twenty-fifth (2nd Attempt) Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that reads a file of tetris shapes and drops the piece into the box.

Ongoing Programming Challenge 2 - Write a Share Trading Bot
This is an ongoing challenge where players write bots to buy and sell virtual shares

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 25 - Count the Ones
This is the challenge page for the twenty-fifth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that counts the number of 1 in the numbers 1-99,999,999.

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 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 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 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 Simple Dungeon
This is the challenge page for the fifteenth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# that can a nine level dungeon 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 twelfth Cplus programming challenge. Write an application in C,C++ or C# to find the shortest 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!

Ongoing Programming Challenge 1 - Rock, Scissors and Paper
This is an ongoing challenge where players write dlls to play Rock Scissors and Paper in C, C++ and C#.

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 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.

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