I just looked at Project Euler. I've noticed the occasional question on StackOverflow with "Project Euler" in the subject, and always kind of blew them off because so many seemed to have the same questions. I just assumed (yeah, yeah, never a good idea) they were more of the annoying "help me with my homework" or "what is teh codez to fix" types of questions that sometimes flood Stack Overflow, so I pretty much ignored them. I never looked at the
project-euler tag-wiki for PE, so I thought it was just some crappy development toolkit or project that attracted a lot of stupid people that all had to solve the same problem. Again. And again.
So anyway, I was talking to a former colleague the other day and he mentioned PE because he knows that meaningless programming puzzles are like Sudoku to me. It turns out that although many of the problems are pretty easy, just as many could be fairly interesting (and some seem quite difficult). Especially if your goal is for more than just writing a correct solution: what is the absolute minimum run-time cost for a correct solution to each problem?
This could be fun.
