Ask HN: Short Programming Problems

5 points by mikeboydbrowne 11 years ago | 8 comments

I'm a CS student working for an investment bank this summer and I want to make sure that I write a little code (~10min) every day. Is there a book/online list of problems I can draw from this summer

a3n 11 years ago |

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley...

The classic Programming Pearls is not exactly a book of problems, but a book of ideas.

You can probably examine a few of the ideas and play with them like toys. Toys are more fun than problems.

smt88 11 years ago |

If there's any piece of open-source software that you like and use, maybe you could try to fix some bugs for that? Once you know a project, it's possible that each bug would take only a few minutes, especially if it's new and growing.

It's also a great boost for your resume.

josephkern 11 years ago |

The C Programming Language, Second Edition; Ritchie and Kernighan; has end of section and end of chapter problems that are pretty good. Especially if you want to learn C.

mirashii 11 years ago |

Generally, just searching for CS interview questions should give you a good number of questions which you should be able to spend a short amount of time on daily.

tienthanh8490 11 years ago |

http://www.codewars.com/

brudgers 11 years ago |

There is a constant stream of 10 minute challenges on StackOverflow.

jklein11 11 years ago |

projecteuler.net

tylermac1 11 years ago |

reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer

Many good problems there regularly.