groovicus

Has anybody given any thought to having a section of the forums dedicated to programming challenges or exercises? I have been lurking about quite a bit lately, and it seems that in addition to some of the very talented programmers here, there are also many that do not understand even what a basic data structure is. I just read one post (no offense to the poster) but they wanted a collection in which pop and push were already built in. I guess if you don't know how to implement your own methods, that is one thing, but it occured to me that if one doesn't even know what a stack is, then there is no need to know what push and pop mean anyway.

DaWei had an intersting idea for a project that checked user input, and rejected input that didn't conform to the required parameters... I thought that was a great idea for a project. That one would cover a few important concepts.

And the language really doesn't matter either. A stack is a stack, no matter which language it is coded in.

Then again, maybe there are not too many people that really care about what really goes on behind the scenes with a given language. Who really cares when there is a function/library/method/class already predefined for you... then again, maybe there are some that are.

I just thought I would throw out the idea anyway. Now I'm off to write an implementation of Djikstra's Algorithm....

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