A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. This article will demonstrate a short fun coding piece to simulate a chatbot. Its objectives are: Accept input from the console as a string and give an answerIf the bot cannot find the answer, they ask for training and add the...
Fun coding challenge: print the American flag
Printing is an important part when programming. Printing the US flag to the system console was a small part of “the shape game” for kids, in which the players will select the correct name for a given shape. The flag of the united states Basic Requirements: You are required to print the American flag to the console using just “*” and “=”. The number of stars...
Check if a string is a palindrome
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam, racecar. There are also numeric palindromes, including date/time stamps using short digits 11/11/11 11:11 and long digits 02/02/2020. Sentence-length palindromes ignore capitalization, punctuation, and word boundaries, so “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!” is...
String interpolation in different programming languages
This article quickly lists out several example to create and manipulate a string from data in different programming languages.
Random seed
if you want to have control to the random sequence or let other people to generate the same sequence of random numbers, take a seed.
