in reply to IBM Cloud Challenge.

What struck me was that the three programming tasks are, at least notionally, so trivial.

Well, they are only giving away a telly . . .

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^2: IBM Cloud Challenge.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 02, 2015 at 22:01 UTC

    The keyword in your quote is "notionally". Whilst the first task is unequivocally trivial; the other two are not necessarily so.

    The prize is (for me) irrelevant; the challenge is what interested me. The wording of the preamble about "brute force" made it so.

    Anyone got any experience of this phone's predecessor?

    With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :)
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    I'm with torvalds on this Agile (and TDD) debunked I told'em LLVM was the way to go. But did they listen!
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      It's problem two that is the evil, mean, and wicked problem (or maybe I misunderstand it :)

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        Question 2 is not trivial. it's the change making problem.
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