Tue Dec 7

Just some final thoughts. ;)

Advent of Code 2021

In case you're looking to continue your coding practice ...

• 7 puzzles this first week
  • Over 150,000 people have done day 1 so far.
  • day 4: bingo
• reddit.com/adventofcode
  • bingo animation
  • day 5: crossing lines
• some of us
  • bennington-cs slack channel
  • github/BenningtonComputing/advent-of-code

Code Quines

And one last cute coding puzzle: quines.

First, I'll describe what they are : self replicating code.

Why? Because self referential looping is cool - think recursion, Gödel, Turing's halting problem : all profound, deep stuff. Quines are not particularly profound ... but still.

Then I'll let you try to create one.

And finally we'll look at some examples.

• wikipedia: quine (computing)
• how to write you first quine in python | local copy of code