Community puzzles

player_one · February 24, 2016, 5:25pm

I love the new community puzzles feature. It’s a great idea. Here are a couple of suggestions that might make it better:

Allow for saving / restoring of partial work. It can be very time consuming to put together a complicated puzzle, and I probably won’t be able to always do so in one sitting. I can create most of the pieces off-line, but this is a bit cumbersome.
It’s a bit strange to see all the answers and even the solution code for every submission. If we will be getting CodinPoints for solving community puzzles, then an unscrupulous individual could theoretically just save off all the solutions to pending puzzles and then fill them in later when the puzzle goes live.

Again, very cool feature, and thanks for continuing to provide exciting new content.

dan

_CG_Maxime · February 24, 2016, 8:14pm

Where? The solution code should only be visible for the admins and the person who submitted the contribution. If not, there’s a problem we need to fix.

A problem could be to see the validators because people could hardcode the solutions.

Thanks a lot for your feedback and compliments. This feature is very limited but we intend to bring new features to improve the whole thing :).

player_one · February 24, 2016, 9:52pm

Huh. My bad. I thought I saw code in some of the submissions that weren’t from me, but I can’t reproduce it now. I’m sure you’re right. I must have misinterpreted something that I saw. Sorry.

player_one · February 25, 2016, 3:30am

Another request: Programmatic validators. I know this is significantly more complex, but it would be nice to be able to write puzzles with multiple paths to victory.

danBhentschel

nicola · February 25, 2016, 5:41pm

My own solution to the RPN does not pass the last validator.
And I can not see the solutions.

Plopx · February 25, 2016, 5:59pm

Just a guess: check the ROL operation. It consumes a value on the stack but does not use it, the ROL is always with 3 elements.

Plopx · February 25, 2016, 6:07pm

Hi,
Apparently, the tests are incomplete for the parenthesis problem. Some wrong codes pass the validation without trouble.
Missing tests are where there are as many closing parenthesis as opening ones, but a closing parenthesis is before an opening one, like in “)(”.
Is it possible to complete the tests?

_CG_Maxime · February 25, 2016, 7:45pm

You can send me in private extra validators and I will add them.

Rogerup · February 26, 2016, 7:16pm

It should not accept expressions like that: “{ ( } )” too.

Rogerup · February 26, 2016, 7:21pm

BUG: Approved Community puzzles: Game’s author with wrong link.

The link always send to the author of the puzzle of the week.

Rogerup · March 7, 2016, 4:13am

CONSTRAINTS wrong in “Game of life”

“1 ≤ width, height ≤ 30”

should be <= 100

player_one · March 15, 2016, 9:22pm

I’m having trouble testing a puzzle that I’m developing. When I click the “Test in IDE” button, nothing happens. The following is in the developer console:

5cd7ce74.codingame.js:5 TypeError: Cannot read property 'publicHandle' of undefined at n.a.startTemporaryPreview (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:38:13599) at https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:7:20267 at n.C.(anonymous function) [as startTemporaryPreview] (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:5:6533) at https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:7:20267 at e (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:7:26791) at n.$eval (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:6:10761) at n.$apply (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:6:10987) at HTMLButtonElement.<anonymous> (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:7:26843) at HTMLButtonElement._.event.dispatch (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:2:17673) at HTMLButtonElement.q.handle (https://www.codingame.com/5cd7ce74.codingame.js:2:14448)

I have tried restarting the browser and it doesn’t help. I’m using Chrome.

danBhentschel

_CG_Nonofr · March 16, 2016, 9:59am

My bad… fixed !

player_one · March 16, 2016, 12:20pm

I confirm. It works for me now. Thanks.

danBhentschel

TGITS · April 1, 2017, 10:46am

And how do you finally manage to pass the last validator A small hint ? I seem to have the same problem : I bang my head against wall but I cannot see why my code doesn’t pass the last validator !

nicola · April 1, 2017, 11:51am

About RPN?
Read carefully what is the ROL operator and how to print an error.

TGITS · April 1, 2017, 12:30pm

Yes about RPN
Thanks : it was not the ROL operator but I have the error management slightly wrong : an incorrect interpretation of one of the result of the tests. However thank you for the hint. And a good puzzle, thanks for contributing !