Grunch: i'm down to work in this. I am a programming noob but i think this is a good exercise to start learning. I am currently learning matlab in university and i know some basic HTML so i have some background. Heard that matlab and python are somewhat similar? maybe that is a good language, it will at least allow users of my level to maybe better comprehend. I would be down to work in C as well though. ^^ i'm a EU guy though so chat contact would be minimal due to time differences.

EU here too

Cool ^^

Bump. Been a bit too hectic to start things on time. Will get things back on track first day I get off.

Right, I have created a skeleton git repository on GitHub here https://github.com/guyht/2p2-Euler-Project

The directory structure is problem-x -> 2p2username -> solution-files.ext

It would probably make sense to start with problem 1 (http://projecteuler.net/index.php?se...roblems&id=1)?

Language? Could make it nice and easy and start off with Python (although its not my forte)?

Can I text one of you guys during my math final tomorrow to complete some of these Euler circuits? God I failed so hard on my last test on the Euler circuit question.

Afternoons and late evenings MST are best for me.


- bachfan of PPT fame

Hey, I am a math guy getting into programming and I am looking to do this. Are people still interested?

Also for language I would want to do whatever is the most versatile and "powerful" (C++?)

Will get some lists compiled and details sorted out this weekend. Almost dug myself out of the coding pit.

certainly not the most powerful, but i think just some scripting language like python is simplest for solving many of these.

OK -- I've compiled a list of everyone that's given the thumbs up here:

http://simp.ly/publish/GVPgxJ

(it's not too late to join, or if I've forgotten, or added you in error, let me know).

and added Wooster's git instructions.

Can everyone post their timezone? I'm kinda hoping we'll roughly be able to divide ourselves into two groups -- one that meets mid evening for North America, and one that meets mid evening for Europe.

We can sorta think of those groups as teams, and hopefully they'll come out close to even numbers wise. I think it would be cool if it each team of size N submits N solutions, each in a different language.

+8 GMT

GMT +1

It's summertime though.

GMT + 1

GMT -4

I'd be interested, I'm in the US CST timezone.

BUMP. Please to be updating your timezone infos.

Can you add me I have cracked like 17 problems from 264 to 320 where I stopped solving. This is my first post, but I am reading this forum for like 2 years. In total I solved 96 problems. I am in euro timezone (gmt +1). I use python and Mathematica for coding, but I also speak C, C++, MATLAB, C# and Haskell

I'd like to participate in this. I started the problems a few years ago in college and managed to finish 8 of the first 14 problems using C++. I'm not entirely against C++, but I think it would be fun to learn a new language. I've also programmed in Matlab, but I don't have access to it now and don't really want to buy it.

Ruby looks like a pretty interesting language. Some of the problems got really frustrating because figuring out how to identify a palindrome in C++ was half the problem. I'm not really interested in fumbling with the super nitty gritty of why my compiler throws up all over the screen. I'm more interested in the mathematics, and a high-level language like Ruby seems good for that, so it gets my vote. I'm open to others if people here are going to be developing in something else.

I'm in the US CST time zone, same as brettkc, which I guess would be -6.

A month or two ago I messed around with solving some of these and found myself writing a LOT of "convert a number to a string" functions in C. That may or may not be a terribly hacky way of solving these.

I don't think C is the best language to attack the early problems, at least. When you get to the really tough ones you can solve them in C and write cruder algorithms (you usually won't be able to do pure brute force, but you can solve some of them by crunching a lot of numbers), but it feels almost like cheating to me.

Okey - MrWooster i've no idea how to go about pull requests. I've been using git for a while and i've never used them.

To kick things off I've pushed a solution to problem 1 in Python.

You should be able to pull with no conflicts

Sorrow

Have pulled in your changes, thanks for keeping to the format. Going to take a crack at some of them this week hopefully.

You can view the pulled changes at https://github.com/guyht/2p2-Euler-Project

Sounds like I might be using Python as my new language instead of Ruby. Ruby sounds great and all, but I get the feeling that it's essentially the same user-friendliness (as far as I'm ever going to use it) without the larger support base of Python.