This message is really from Jason Menard, but I'm reposting it after accidentally deleting the original.
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Welcome to Programming Diversions! This is a place to come to in order to have some fun and to flex a bit of the ol' grey matter. In this forum you will find progamming challenges and puzzles of various difficulty that you can solve, or better yet, post your own! You will benefit not only by attempting these yourself, but also by seeing how your fellow programmer attacks these problems.
We're not always looking for the best way to solve a certain problem, but rather how
you would solve the problem. The idea is to think and excercise our problem solving skills. Along the way hopefully we'll spark up some lively conversation about the different methods used to tackle a particular problem.
This would also be the place to talk about many of those "How do you do such-and-such?", or "What's the best way to do such-and-such?" questions. Additionally, we will begin putting a monthly puzzle challenge in the newsletter, and these will also be found in this forum.
Here are the general do's and dont's for this forum:
1. Don't post your homework problems here hoping others will do it for you. These posts will be closed immediately.
2. We suggest people try to solving these problems on their own, and multiple solutions are welcome. We also encourage people to discuss and debate solutions that may be found elsewhere on the Internet, but
you should provide a link to the original source.
3. When posting code, use
UBB CODE tags. This is a courtesy to those who will be reading your code. HINT: As the UBB CODE tags suppress blank lines, to simulate a blank line, hit [space], then enter.
4. When posting code, if there's something in your code that's either tricky to follow or in some way noteworthy, help everyone out by commenting it.
5. In general, try to solve the problems only using the Sun APIs unless otherwise stated. It never hurts to highlight when a third-party API might be better suited for the job, however.
Now all that's left to do is mosy on over, put on your ten-gallon thinking cap, and let's have some fun!
[ June 02, 2003: Message edited by: Jason Menard ]