Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 16:58 | comment | added | Scoots | @PeterTaylor The challenge would be to get the highest possible positive score of course, but sadly my thinking has led me to concur with the rest of your statement. Sandbox being the filter it is supposed to be :) | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 7:53 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | I only see a scoring system, but no challenge. Also, in languages like Unary or Whitespace it would be trivial to get arbitrarily large negative scores - and in most languages you can add effective no-ops. I think this kind of thing has been tried before, but it may not have made it past the sandbox because it has big problems which can't really be fixed. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 16:00 | comment | added | rydwolf | @Scoots I haven't seen too many good posts based on getting the longest source code/output, and I'll be excited to see something new. Good luck! | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 15:45 | comment | added | Scoots | @RedwolfPrograms Nah that's too contingent on circumstances outside our control (how busy is the server when it runs the script etc)... I'm going to think on this for a while. Maybe something creative with exclusives between script and output | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | rydwolf | @Scoots Maybe base it on some other element, like execution time? | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:57 | comment | added | Scoots | @RedwolfPrograms that falls afoul of a for loop and a given language’s chr function. This will take some thinking. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:54 | history | edited | Scoots | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:52 | comment | added | rydwolf | @Scoots Well, that's where it gets complicated. This could also be considered a code-bowling challenge in a way, since the goal is to make the longest source code (or output) possible. The issue with code bowling questions is that they often have exploitable loopholes like comments, regexes, variable names, etc. I'd find a way to work this into the scoring, such as reducing points for source code lengths and adding points for output length | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:51 | comment | added | Scoots |
Hmm and I also need a creative way to say “script cannot simply be print ‘abcdefg...’
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| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:50 | history | edited | Scoots | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:49 | comment | added | Scoots | @RedwolfPrograms ah so there needs to be a rule excluding comments | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:45 | comment | added | rydwolf | One issue is I could just write a comment with 65,000 unicode characters in it. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:12 | comment | added | Wheat Wizard Mod | As far as tagging goes: code-challenge. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:00 | history | answered | Scoots | CC BY-SA 4.0 |