acautin/programming-challenges

Codingame programming-challenges

Solutions to codingame challenges as a way to learn and practice new programming languages. To view the full description of the problem and the input/output format please refer to https://codingame.com

Contests

Compete in multiplayer games against bots developed by other players.

Platinum Rift

Fight for the control of the world (represented as an hexagonal map) prioritize the control of patinum producing zones to produce more troops.

• Javascript implementation
• Go implementation

Back to the Code

Claim ownership of cells in a grid. Move onto a neutral cell or surround a collection of neutral cells to get points. Go back in time a defined number of turns to confuse your opponent or try a different strategy.

• Javascript implementation

Code vs Zombies (single player)

Destroy zombies quickly to earn points and make sure to keep the humans alive to get the highest score that you can manage.

• Ruby implementation

Hypersonic

The goal is to outlive your opponents, the rules of the game are similar to Bomberman played in a 13 units wide and 11 units high grid.

• Rust implementation

The Accountant (single player)

Shoot enemies before they collect all the incriminating data. The closer you are to an enemy, the more damage you do but don't get too close or you'll get killed.

• Rust implementation

Ghost in the Cell

Your objective is to produce a maximum amount of cyborgs in order to destroy those of your opponent. To this end, you must take ownership of factories that will enable you to increase the size of your cyborg army.

• Rust implementation

Coders of the Caribbean

In this game, you are in command of pirate ships and your goal is to avoid running out of rum. If all the rum dries up on a given ship, your crew will go mad and you will lose the ship. Barrels of rum are placed randomly across the map. You must control the movements of your ship in order to collect the barrels of rum before your opponent does.

• Rust implementation

Code4Life

Produce medicines and maximize your score by transporting items across a medical complex.

• Rust implementation

Wondev Woman

The game is played on a square grid of a given size. Both players start with two units placed randomly on the grid. Both players take it in turns to perform one action with one of their units. To score points, players must get a unit to climb up cells and reach a height of 3 levels.

• Rust implementation

Puzzles

Single player bot programming with predefined tasks (Ordered by difficulty)

Power of thor

A basic problem to allow Thor to reach the coordinates of the light of power in a 2D field.

• Go implementation
• Go code golf
• Javascript code golf

The Descent

Find the highest mountain out of a list of mountains.

• Go implementation

Temperatures

Your program must analyze records of temperatures to find the closest to zero.

• cpp implementation
• cpp code golf
• Javascript code golf

Mars Lander - Episode 1

Land the spaceship on the platform. (Only vertically movement involved)

• C# implementation
• Clojure implementation

Horse-racing Duals

In this problem you have to find the two numbers that are closest to each other among a list of numbers. The list might be really large.

• Python implementation
• Bash implementation

ASCII Art

The goal of the problem is to simulate an old airport terminal display: your program must display a line of text in ASCII art.

• C implementation

Chuck Norris

A string is an encoded form of digital values and you have to transform those values into a “unary” string such as 0 00 000 0...

• Java implementation

Defibrillators

The goal of this exercise is to make you find the closest point to given geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude).

• PHP implementation

MIME Type

Back to basics with this puzzle where you have to associate file names with their MIME type

• Dart implementation

There is no Spoon - Episode 1

The goal is to find, when they exist, the horizontal and vertical neighbors nodes from a two dimensional array. The difficulty is in the number of nested loops that this puzzle can make you write. Do not get lost!

• Python implementation

Shadows of the Knight - Episode 1

The goal of this puzzle is to guess the coordinate of a bomb (line and column of a 2 dimensional array). You will have to make a guess at each step of the puzzle and adjust it from given feedbacks.

• cpp implementation

Skynet Revolution - Episode 1

This problem plays out on a graph where a “virus” moves from node to node, in search of an exit. There are several exits and you have to cut access to these exits by finding the best link to cut each turn.

• Haskell implementation

Don't panic - Episode 1

Guide the clones towards the exit of the maze, stop when you’re going away from the exit, continue if you are going the right way. You are given the position and direction of your clones.

• cpp implementation
• cpp code golf
• rust implementation
• rust code golf
• Javascript implementation
• Javascript code golf

Stock Exchange Losses

Given a list of numbers, you have to find not the minimal value but the maximal drop. Be careful that a drop can span on several values!

• cpp implementation

War

Your program must determine the winner of a game of War, a simple two-player card game.

• cpp implementation

Conway Sequence

The goal of this puzzle is to make you work with a mathematical series: The Conway Sequence. Discover how to generate terms of a series interatively.

• cpp implementation
• Erlang implementation

Mars Lander - Episode 2

The goal of this problem is to make you work with 2D coordinates in a big environnement. You will have to manage and extrapolate the speed of a spaceship and make it land on a flat ground at correct speed.

• Ruby implementation