From: arnuld
Subject: need some problems to work on
Date: 
Message-ID: <1152178975.609941.179900@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
hai folks,
i was looking for some *problems* so that i can solve them using my
CLISP compiler. i can read & understand some (or some more) parts of
source-code of CLISP 2.38 & SBCL 0.9.11. i never did any real-life
programming at all but still i did some Common LIsp and now  i am
looking if you can provid eme some decent problems to work onto.

( i did look @ CMU repository but did not get much useful things).

thanks

--a rnuld
From: micromoog
Subject: Re: need some problems to work on
Date: 
Message-ID: <1152199560.756751.172330@s26g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Project Euler is a fun collection of math problems intended to be
solved with software.  People solve them using many languages; Lisp has
a pretty significant showing.

http://mathschallenge.net/index.php?section=project




arnuld wrote:
> hai folks,
> i was looking for some *problems* so that i can solve them using my
> CLISP compiler. i can read & understand some (or some more) parts of
> source-code of CLISP 2.38 & SBCL 0.9.11. i never did any real-life
> programming at all but still i did some Common LIsp and now  i am
> looking if you can provid eme some decent problems to work onto.
>
> ( i did look @ CMU repository but did not get much useful things).
> 
> thanks
> 
> --a rnuld
From: Eric Hanchrow
Subject: Re: need some problems to work on
Date: 
Message-ID: <877j2qr8lz.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
I've set myself a problem to be solved in any new language that I
learn: write a program that generates all the anagrams of a given
phrase.  I've found this problem to be simple enough to not be
off-putting, but complex enough to be interesting.
-- 
Star ratings go back to that simpler time when film critics
stood on far hillsides and signaled to the grateful peasantry
with torches and brightly colored flags.
        -- Roger Ebert
From: Darren New
Subject: Re: need some problems to work on
Date: 
Message-ID: <3Obrg.12814$MF6.10799@tornado.socal.rr.com>
Eric Hanchrow wrote:

> I've set myself a problem to be solved in any new language that I
> learn: write a program that generates all the anagrams of a given
> phrase.  I've found this problem to be simple enough to not be
> off-putting, but complex enough to be interesting.

That's a good one. Myself, I use Jotto (which is like MasterMind only 
with words instead of colors). It has the added advantage of making you 
learn I/O, both from the console and to your disk. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Native Americans used every part
     of the buffalo, including the wings.
comp.lang.lisp / 2006 / jul