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btilly's reason is correct -- It's because Project Euler is about solving the problems for yourself, not just blindly copying and pasting. Although I'm starting
by zck 17y ago
btilly's reason is correct -- It's because Project Euler is about solving the problems for yourself, not just blindly copying and pasting. Although I'm starting to lean towards thinking that if people want to cheat, they will, and so if I can help someone (even myself) by posting the code, I should do so.
And yes, getting pointers on my Arc code would be helpful. So maybe I'll put everything up on github.
- timwiseman 17y agoBtilly is entirely correct of course, but there is a huge caveat to what he says. That being that people who want to cheat have any number of ways of doing it from finding someone else who posted it publicly, to asking privately, to (in the extreme case) actually paying someone to figure out the answer and give it to them. And, as I mentioned in a previous post, the people who do not want to cheat, won't. They won't do those searches. If they stumble over it and know what it is they won't read it. If they stumble over it and read it before they know what it is, they will almost certainly forget the details quickly. So by posting your Arc code publicly, you would neither (significantly) help someone wanting to cheat nor hurt someone not wanting to cheat. But you will help people who want to learn Arc.
- zck 17y agoIt sounds like someone wants to cheat on Project Euler. No, I'm joking. If that was the only issue, I'd just post them. Somewhere on the Project Euler site -- I can't find it now -- they ask for the solutions not to be posted anywhere. That's my main hangup at this point.