Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

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Always fun to see more people doing things like this!

See also Project Euler for LOTS of inspiration: http://projecteuler.net/

I see these puzzles as part of grand tradition that includes sangaku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangaku) and Martin Gardner, among others.

The main difference between these and Project Euler is that these are far more "programming" challenges, whereas Project Euler often boils down to brute forcing a solution once you've figured out the one or two mathematical tricks to reducing the problem space.

Googling for regular expressions puzzle turns up a few more of a slightly different but related flavor.

It would be fun to develop a taxonomy and categorize the different recreational challenges that people find amusing, basing the categories on the type of "aha" and skillset required to solve it.

Cool! If anyone likes these they should check out http://projecteuler.net/ as well.

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