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Brain Teasers for Coders?

Posted by Cliff on from the excercise-for-your-mind dept.

calvinandhobbes asks: "There are about 200 people working on different projects and most of them do programming without having an idea of what they actually do. they have little understanding of OS internals and primitive hacking skills. I want to enthuse them by providing some challenges by which they touch upon complex computing concepts, while solving the problem. Does anyone know of a set of C-based hacks or puzzles with which I can enthuse these budding programmers and testers?"

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  1. Programming Challenges by tcopeland · · Score: 3, Informative

    Programming Challenges is a nifty book by Steven Skiena and Miguel Revilla. It's a selection of problems from the Online-Judge problem set. There's a lot of nifty stuff in there - sorting, graph theory, number theory, etc.

    Best of all, when folks solve the problems, they can submit their solutions online to see if they pass muster!

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