Since we'll be having multiple solutions, possibly multiple per-language, I think it'd be nice / beneficial to have a table of contents like log of all of the solutions in the challenge directory, with a short description of the solution. This would encourage people to solve the solution different ways, and could prove a quick overview of the submitted solutions.

This listing could also include the solution author's name, as a quick view of everyone that contributed to that challenge.

For example, a solution that utilizes a quick sort could be submitted, and someone or even the same person could also upload a solution that utilizes a randomized quicksort.

I think it'd also make browsing the repo more user-friendly, as you could relatively easily get a feel for what kind of solutions have already been submitted without having to open every solution file.

Thoughts?

I was unfamiliar with working against Reddit's APIs, so please feel full freedom to reject or request alterations to this pull request.

What I found was:

• It appears that the praw api has evolved since post-challenges.py was created and I have updated post-challenges.py according to what I believe is the expected behavior.
• As a test, I have added in challenge 336, which post-challenges.py pulled from Reddit.
• In a future pull request, I would like to update the documentation to provide guidance on how to use praw and the setting up of a reddit api access key, as that information was not in a convenient single location.
  • I would also like to update the documentation about the reference to a post_challenges script that seems to no longer exist in the repo and another script referenced inside of post-challeneges.py that is also not there (send-data.sh)
• After we have discussed these updates, I will submit more pull requests that fit what you would prefer.
• The naming convention appears to have shifted and challenges appear in the repo that do not follow what is requested in CONTRIBUTING.md, i.e. #336 vs 0336 and so on. Would be happy to rename and resubmit those to follow the naming convention

Hello! Just got here from r/ruby and decided to poke around the repository. I've noticed that some challenges e.g.

https://github.com/FreddieV4/DailyProgrammerChallenges/tree/master/Easy%20Challenges/Challenge%20%230002%20%5BEasy%5D

Are open-ended and the contribution guidelines doesn't cover challenges of this nature; the calculator application can be anything from calculating acceleration to weight of an object, for instance.

We should have a naming convention for these types of challenges too!

From CONTRIBUTING.md

Please use the following name format when creating a challenge directory:

Challenge #xxxx [Easy/Intermediate/Hard] Challenge Name

Example:

Challenge #0251 [Hard] ASCII Nonogram
Challenge #0254 [Intermediate] Finding Legal Reversi Moves
Challenge #0253 [Easy] Unconditional Loan Income

The challenges in Easy Challenges have this formatting, but the challenges in Intermediate Challenges && Hard Challenges do not currently follow this format.

The contributing guidelines don't specify what should be done for challenges that are tightly coupled with input files. Example of one is [Intermediate] no.19 which links to text file needed for the program. Should these type of files just be included in the folder for the challenge?

The challenge_text.md file of some challenges contain trash in it due to some encoding errors while pulling the selftext from the respective r/dailyprogrammer post.

Challenges Containing Trash:

~~- Easy Challenges/Challenge # 241 [easy] Unicode Chess/challenge_text.md~~ ~~- Easy Challenges/Challenge #114 [Easy] Word ladder steps/challenge_text.md~~

• Easy Challenges/Challenge #166b [Easy] Planetary Gravity Calculator/challenge_text.md
• Easy Challenges/Challenge #214 [Easy] Calculating the standard deviation/challenge_text.md
• Extra-Bonus Challenges/Challenge #207 [Bonus] Erdos Number Calculator/challenge_text.md -Hard Challenges/Challenge # 241 [Hard] Chess Puzzle solver/challenge_text.md
• Hard Challenges/Challenge #121 [Hard] Medal Management/challenge_text.md
• Hard Challenges/Challenge #129 [Hard] Baking Pi/challenge_text.md
• Hard Challenges/Challenge #208 [Hard] The Universal Machine/challenge_text.md
• Hard Challenges/Challenge #248 [Hard] NotClick game/challenge_text.md
• Hard Challenges/Challenge #50 [difficult]/challenge_text.md
• Intermediate Challenges/Challenge # 241 [intermediate] ascii Bitmap Chess/challenge_text.md ~~- Intermediate Challenges/Challenge #184 [Intermediate] Radioactive Decay/challenge_text.md~~ ~~- Intermediate Challenges/Challenge #38 [intermediate]/challenge_text.md~~ ~~- Easy Challenges/Challenge #213 [Easy] Cellular Automata - Rule 90/challenge_text.md~~

When trying to clone the project (using: git clone https://github.com/FreddieV4/DailyProgrammerChallenges.git), I'm running in to errors that I think are due using a reserved character in a directory name. When I try and clone I get:

    fatal: cannot create directory at 'Easy Challenges/Challenge #0257 [Easy] In what year were most presidents alive?': Invalid argument

I've googled around, and found that windows has a bunch of reserved characters that cannot be used in directory names such as:

• < (less than)

• (greater than)

• : (colon)
• " (double quote)
• / (forward slash)
• \ (backslash)
• | (vertical bar or pipe)
• ? (question mark)
• * (asterisk)

The question mark in "Challenge #0257 [Easy] In what year were most presidents alive?" needs to be removed, and I'd gladly do it myself but I can't clone the project to fix it.

Every M/W/F, the repository is updated with that day's E/I/H challenge; this assumes that, on all three days, there is a new challenge. Some week's there are not three challenges, just one or two. If this occurs, the script will end up pulling a second copy of the already existing challenge(s) and won't move them into the correct directory, and keep them in the parent directory.

The scripts should be updated such that if the challenge already exists, the repeat challenge will be removed; this would either be invoked by an error or by cross-checking pulled challenge names with existing ones (though the latter would be much more expensive)

This week's easy challenge has a : in the name of the folder, which causes some problems as we can't have : in a folder name.

The sequence \/:?*"<> should be ignored in folders name.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/49aatn/20160307_challenge_257_easy_in_what_year_were/

Solution is in go using Marzullo's algorithm. I haven't used go much so I implemented the solution to an easy problem to experiment with the language.

Not sure if you want to rename the directory for the Easy challenge.

When it was originally posted to the subreddit, it was typo'd as 218 instead of 219, so it looks like there's two 218 challenges.