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There's only one problem for me with Project Euler. Eventually, the problems become more about coming up with the mathematical algorithm you need to solve it.
by ahuth 13y ago
There's only one problem for me with Project Euler. Eventually, the problems become more about coming up with the mathematical algorithm you need to solve it.
That may be what you want. However, a lot of these are outside my math knowledge/ability, without really expanding my programming ability.
- gaius 13y agoIn many of them, the naive solution is intractable in terms of time or memory, so some programming skill is required.
- ahuth 13y agoThis is definitely true. Finding the non-naive solution is still more of a math exercise, though. I've spent a lot of time reading wikipedia articles for algorithms that I don't understand trying to solve some these problems.
- pmiller2 13y agoI agree. I think the "hard" (and some of the "medium") challenges on codeeval.com are much better in terms of requiring coding ability vs requiring math ability. Math ability won't hurt, but it won't get you quite all the way there.