Challenges will be released on weekdays between 1st and 15th December, and final submissions are due by the 22nd.
Challenges are intended to take 30 minutes or less - it is of course up to you if you spend any longer.
Please pull the current repository, create a branch and add your submissions to the branch if you want to share your work. GITHUB REPO
The full list of ideas submitted here (2023):
* Time for Milk and Cookies? - Create a function which accepts a Date and returns true if the date is Christmas Eve (December 24th) otherwise false. Bruce
* Use faker to generate a child, their address and if they are on santas naughty list or nice list. Dougmac
* Free Coffee-cup counter - Every 6 cups of coffee I buy, I get the 7th cup for free. Create a function that takes the total cups I have bought and returns how many free cups I would recieve. Bruce
* Make a simple UI and hook it into whatever API necessary to show a random location where it's snowing at any given time Craig
* Seasonal Coffee. Give a date, return syrup for the season (eg pumpkin spice for october). Dougmac
* Holiday counter. Set your leave dates. Program runs and gives you days of holiday left. Dougmac
* Generate an random string which is then parsed to check if it contains "merry christmas". If not, increase the length of the string until it does. Dougmac
* Code a button that plays a christmas sound when pressed. Dougmac
* UNIX countdown. Code the remaining unix seconds between now and christmas. Bonus for real time countdown. Dougmac
* Broken Bridge - Create a function which accepts a string of characters to represent a bridge which will return true if the bridge is safe to walk accross (does not contain any empty spaces), otherwise false. Bruce
* No Conditionals? - Create a function that accepts either 1 or 0 which returns 1 if given 0 and 0 if given 1. The function cannot contain conditional statements. Bruce
* Write any small program that you like, but every function name and variable should be unintuitively given a festive name. Dougmac
* Implement a simple compression algorithm to convert a given string. (e.g. AAAABBBB -> A4B4) The smaller the output the better! Matt Munro
* Make a 30 minute winter themed game - you may use an existing game and amend it, or you may attempt to code from scratch Craig
* H4ck3r Sp34k - Create a function which accepts a string and returns a coded hacker speak version with "a" replaced with 4, "e" replaced 3, "i"replaced with 1, "o" replaced with 0 and "s" replaced with 5. Bruce
* Do something fun with an image (apply a filter, splice together two images, flip etc) Matt Munro
* Write a program using your voice instead of typing (e.g. windows dictation toolbar) Matt Munro
* Christmas cracker joke generator Because he "ho ho hos"
* Write a function to print an ascii christmas tree of a provided height Stephen
* Generate a string and then sort its contents into two arrays, one of numbers and one of letters. Bonus for sorting the arrays. Dougmac
* Write a small piece of code with a deliberate mistake. Others must race to find it after being given it at the same time. Bonus for those who don't use debugging tools. Dougmac
* Provide your DOB. Return if you are allowed to play with LEGO. Dougmac
The full list of ideas submitted here (2022):
* Produce a function that outputs text to the terminal which is greater than 1 line in height. - Dougmac
* Write a piece of code which executes a different piece of code written in a different language. - Dougmac
* "Take any string in, and return it with all of its characters in alphabetical order" - Scott Hamilton
* Produce a nullpointerexception using as few characters as possible - Dougmac
* Make the computer make a sound - Dougmac
* Return the number of days until Christmas - Scott Hamilton
* "Write a ""Hello World!"" program as convoluted as possible" - Matthew G
* Write a bot which tells knock-knock jokes - Matthew G
* Make a game in 30 minutes or less - Craig
* Write code that controls something like screen brightness or volume - Craig
* A programme that tells you the day of the week you were born when you give your DOB - Dougmac
* Compile a .exe which does anything - Dougmac
* Make an alarm clock/timer - Dougmac
* Make a button that takes you to Rick Astley - Dougmac
* Return the number of scrabble points for a given string - Dougmac
* Code rolling a pair of dice - Dougmac
* Make a program which breaks itself so it cant be run after it runs - Dougmac
* Write a piece of code which sets off the antivirus - Dougmac
* "Write a program that does anything at all, but you must write the whole thing and run it as a live demo with no prior testing or prior implimentation memorisation" - Dougmac
* Code which tells the user if they have been naughty or nice this christmas - Dougmac
* Write a perfectly functional segment of code with 1 deliberate mistake which others must race to identify. - Dougmac
* "Make a button that could be presed, but can't be pressed" - Dougmac
* Do something using only CSS which you would normally do using Javascript - Dougmac
* Code something 1337 themed - Dougmac
* Find the fastest solution to alphabetising the entire text of Moby Dick. Competition benchmarking will be done on a Raspberry Pi. - Dougmac
* Matthew's decipher task - Matthew G
* Write code which simulates play your cards right (higher and lower next number in range N of set X) - Dougmac
* Write a piece of code that solves for all anagrams of a given string (APIs allowed) - Craig
* Write a piece of code that solves the numbers round of countdown - Craig
* Work out how to override a method and use it to do something annoying/funny - Craig