Project Euler

Posted at 4:08pm on Tuesday July 12th 2011

Jon Roberts says:

I thought those who read TuxRadar might be interested in Project Euler. It's an old project, but a cool one for people like me - that is, those who dabble in programming and maths and are looking for a set of challenges to help them develop further.

From the website:

"Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems."

They have an active forum where you can go for help and advice, but be warned, people posting spoilers will be reminded not to do so as it's against the spirit of the project.

If any one is interested: I'm on problem 3. Not very far, but I've already learned a lot about prime numbers and how to generate them! Now to find a (much) faster solution.

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Your comments

Great stuff!

DaveC (not verified) - July 12, 2011 @ 10:14pm

Fantastic! I've been looking for ways to exercise my programming skills recently... practice makes perfect and all that. This should do nicely!

Gosh!

francium_duck - July 15, 2011 @ 1:24am

This project looks great fun, and a good way to keep the noggin ticking over. Definitely going to have a play. Thanks Jon!

Thanks for the reminder

Metasansana (not verified) - July 17, 2011 @ 1:44pm

I was supposed to start doing Euler for like 8 months now! Thanks I'm going to get to it. (I forgot the name of it actually and I didnt have it bookmarked)

I've solved 15 so far

Tom Walker (not verified) - July 20, 2011 @ 12:29pm

I think I've broken my brain now. With some of them the barrier is not my programming ability (or lack of it) so much as my ability to understand what they're on about in the first place.

Thanks

DW98 (not verified) - November 12, 2011 @ 5:45am

Thank you. I am going to use this site for exercises as I learn Python.