soxfox42 / challenges-nim

challenges-nim

Swinburne Comp Sci/IT programming challenge, with the theme "Short n' sweet, learn a new language!"

When I started this challenge, I wrote this in a README:

I happened to already be learning Zig at the time the challenge was announced, so I'm taking it as a good set of projects to learn with.

And then along came the macOS 13 Public Beta, which broke absolutely nothing... except Zig (and my name, but that's another story.)

thread 3486241 panic: Darwin is handled separately via std.zig.system.darwin module
Unable to dump stack trace: debug info stripped

What? What does that error even mean?

Anyway, time for take 2. This time, I'm using Nim.

Running

Make sure you have Nim 1.6.6 (or higher) installed, then:

cd [challenge_dir]
nimble run

Challenges

1. Fizz Buzz
2. File I/O
3. Text Parsing
4. Text Manipulation
5. Connect 4

Aside: Languages

Why did I pick two relatively obscure languages? It's quite simple really. I wanted to properly stick to the rule that I had to use a language I hadn't used before. Unfortunately, I've used a lot of languages, though only a small selection make up 98% percent of the programming I do. I just like learning new programming languages. That really narrows down the available languages, but I picked some compiled languages that looked interesting to me.