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Challenges of the Month
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2013
Draw
a face in the TextWindow, Consider using colours (TextWIndow.ForegroundColor and TextWindow.BackgroundColor), suitable characters (Text.GetCharacter), and careful positioning (TextWindow.CursorLeft and TextWindow.CursorRight)
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Reverse
the characters in a text string
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Change
the first letter of each word in a string to a capital letter
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Validate
a password has at least 6 characters, has upper and lower case letters and at least one number
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(Easier)
Write a program to read the day, month and year from a user and write it out to the TextWindow, formatted in nice colours.
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(Harder)
Write an email verification program
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Show
a simple graph for a simple function (with value table) in TW with eg. '*' or '.'
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Write
a simple Month Calendar in TW
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Write
a program to read some text and replace all capital letters with a * character
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Write
a program to convert currencies, graphical or text based
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Write
a simple binary number converter between decimal and binary numbers (both ways)
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Write
a simple code that takes an input and converts it to a code (numbers or text)
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Write
a program to calculate the sum of all whole numbers between 2 user input values
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Write
a program where the user enters 5 numbers and you calculate the sum (all added), product (all multiplied) and average
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Write
a program that asks the user for 2 numbers and what calculation to perform (+, -, / or *), then uses a different subroutine to do the required calculation
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Write
a program that loops through the first 100 numbers, 1, 2, 3 ... 99, 100. It then Writes out to the TextWindow every number that is a multiple of 3 or 7
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Write
a program that gets some text input by the user and loops through each character and counts the number of vowels a, e, i, o or u
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Write
a program that finds all the numbers less than 1000 that contain only digits that sum to 10, e.g. 55, 73, 136, but not 423. How many are there?
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Write
a program to calculate the sum of all square numbers less than 1000
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Write
a program to validate date input
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Write
a program to ask the user for their age and date of birth. Confirm that they are telling the truth or not
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Write
a program to convert a user input text to a set of musical notes using the Sound.PlayMusic method
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Positions
the TextWindow in the middle of the screen.Set the Pen colour to red and background colour to yellow.Asks for a number and then some text.Displays the input number (Cyan, column 10) and text (Green, column 30) in different colours on the same line at different
column positions.
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Calculate
the sum of all digits in a number. If this has more than 1 digit, then sum these until you have a single number
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Calculate
the square root of a number without using the Math methods (SquareRoot or Power)
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Create
a random password generator
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Make
a program to organize an array alphabetically
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Write
a program to calculate the average of 10 random numbers (in the range 1 to 100)
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Write
a program that searches all Small Basic programs in a directory to find all files (and the line numbers) containing a user input text
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Convert
a number in decimal form to the equivalent mixed number with the fraction portion reduced to lowest terms
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2012
Write
a program to format a list of words so they are displayed in 5 vertical columns, with each column having the same indentation
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Write
a program to reverse all the words in a sentence, For example "this is my sentence" would be "sentence my is this"
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Get
the user to input a sentence and count how many times each letter in the alphabet is used
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Find
the most common letter; often it is ‘e’
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Write
a TextWindow program to welcome a user and ask for their name
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Find
all the numbers less than 1000, where the sum of the digits is 15, for example 96 or 177. How many are there?
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Write
a program to get the user to enter a number and write it out in words, for example 123 is one hundred and twenty three
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Find
all the numbers palindromic numbers less than 1000, eg. 1 131, 424 etc (the same forwards as backwards)
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Find
all the 2 digit numbers that when the digits are reversed and the smaller number subtracted from the larger, the result is 36, for example 15 and 51
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Detect
any numbers in an input text.
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Enter
a number and detect if it is odd or even
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Calculate
the sum of all integer numbers under 1000 that contain a 3
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Write
the times tables (1 to 12)
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Convert
an input decimal number to a binary number
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Measure
your type speed with unit words/sec
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Make
a list of subroutine names from given Small Basic source file
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Make
an indent program which coordinates indentation of given Small Basic source file
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Write
a program to count up nouns in a sentence of text from a user
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Write
a program to read in and spell-check a sentence of text from a user
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Use
the stack to reverse a list of numbers entered by a user
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Use
a While loop to find the first triangular number with 4 digits
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Write
a units conversion program to convert between m, cm, mm, inches, feet, and yards; either graphical or text based
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Work
out the probability of getting 4 of a kind (any suit) in a five card hand of poker on the first round (before any card changes)
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Write
a number guessing game.The program selects a random number between 1 and 100 and asks the player to guess it
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Ask
the user to input some characters and the program outputs them in alphabetical order
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Write
a program that converts centimetres into inches and inches into centimetres
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Create
a program that generates 40 random numbers between 01 and 99 (inclusive
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Write
a program to write out the current date and time in this format
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Write
a program to read an entire text file into a SmallBasic variable
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A
company manufactures two types of tiles
