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EcoCode: Competitive Code Golfing Online

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Test your code golf skills

Inspired by the many code golf challenges on repl.it and elsewhere in the past, I created EcoCode, an online competitive code golfing website. Code golf is the programming challenge of solving problems in the shortest number of characters possible. EcoCode gives you an environment to attempt to solve a variety of programming challenges in the shortest number of characters using JavaScript.

Compete on the leaderboards

Every one of the 14 unique challenges ranging in difficulty from easy to very hard has its very own leaderboard. Your solutions are automatically processed then placed on the leaderboard by number of characters. Compete on the general leaderboard for the shortest solutions overall with your score being the sum of the scores of all your solutions. See who is the best code golfer!

Online coding environment

EcoCode has an embedded code editor using Ace and also allows you to test your code on the fly. No need for another IDE or the JavaScript console, write, test, and submit your code directly in EcoCode.

Mobile support

EcoCode was one of my first projects using responsive web design. No matter how wide your window is, EcoCode is still usable. With mobile support, attempt code golf challenges or check the leaderboards wherever you are.

repl auth

Log into EcoCode directly with your repl.it account, username, and pfp with the wonders of repl auth! Note that repl auth is still very much in beta and can be a bit buggy on some browsers and some platforms.

Can you be the champion code golfer? Find out on EcoCode today!

CODE GOLF TIPS: https://repl.it/talk/learn/Tips-and-Tricks-for-Code-Golfing-in-JavaScript/29876

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AmazingMech2418

AgastyaSandhuja

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wow dude this is insane how polished it is!

ikr

is it just me or does this show up as a deceptive site for everyone?

, normal site for me

, deceptive for my friend though

The deceptive site thing comes up for me too

Thanks

Thanks!

It also says, “ An Error occured:
Failed to authenticate :(“

Lol ok

Thanks! It works now!

You can bypass the deceptive warning by clicking "view details," and then "visit this unsafe site"

I know, it was just a trick I used earlier.

staticvoidliam7

c# support
plz

Very cool! I'm impressed with the degree of functionality EcoCode has with login, leaderboard, and an IDE. There's only one thing that's missing - Python support!

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does it use the repl.it API, or its own evaluation thing? You could possibly set up an eval client thing...

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ok, cool. does the eval server use an external API like repl.it's or your own?

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nice

Really, an amazing job, but for the 'EEEEEEEEEE' challenge, it [the submit button] doesn't work as it doesn't let me submit it says, Status: ERROR Error: ReferenceError: prompt is not defined
My code:


e="2.718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724"
console.log(e.substring(0,prompt()))```

Ohhh thanks

AmazingMech2418

For that one, you also need like 600 to 700 digits of e, and I also would recommend using slice instead of substring.

@AmazingMech2418

oh ok thank you!

AmazingMech2418

You're welcome!

@AmazingMech2418

fast reply!

AmazingMech2418

Yeah... I'm already on Repl.it, so I just had to see the notification and then reply.

@AmazingMech2418

, wait how do you the input var? Sorry, I'm not very good at node

AmazingMech2418

It's just a precreated variable. Just put input.

AmazingMech2418

Please add more codegolf challenges. However, please not more like the one where you have to calculate e (I had to just copy and paste a bunch of digits and used the slice function) where attempting to do it in a shorter way would overload the memory in the browser. Also, another thing you could possibly do is make it so that other users can create codegolf challenges as well.

AmazingMech2418

I tried and it needs like 500 digits and JavaScript doesn't have that kind of precision...

AmazingMech2418

Won't the Node compiler timeout then? It would take a very long time, especially when dealing with the exponents.

AmazingMech2418

Tried that too. It won't work for decimals...

AmazingMech2418

For some reason, in leap years and character repetition, it is saying my solution is incorrect when it is actually correct. Any ideas on what is going on?

AmazingMech2418

No. For example for the leap year one, I just put console.log(input%4==0) which is correct, but was marked incorrect. Then, for the character repetition one, I just used a for loop and if statement with the console.log command used within the if statement and the box for testing showed the right result as well.

AmazingMech2418

I purposefully designed my script to display in order of first appearance with my script being this: for(i in a=input)if(i==a.search(a[i])&&i!=a.lastIndexOf(a[i]))console.log(a[i])

AmazingMech2418

@AmazingMech2418

Oh. It is supposed to be the first repetition, not the first occurrence.

AmazingMech2418

@AmazingMech2418

It worked when I updated it. I just misread the instructions.

now i really need help. after i log in it takes me to the screen that says "repl.it refused to connect".

Repl.it refused to connect

It's so cool!!! I wish I knew JavaScript lol I tried to do it in Python. :P

AgastyaSandhuja

I can't log in for some reason

Nice, sucks that i suck at JS

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Dark mode! You need to add a dark mode! My poor eyes!

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AIEEEE! Why don’t repls that use repl auth work on my iPad?! It looks fun :(

I can't log in for some reason

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What device are you using? Mobile doesn’t work.

macbook air

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That’s your device’s problem.

Why do I get the fail message every time?(This was the leap year challenge)
The code seems to work when I test it

oh!

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does it use byte counts or char counts? if i typed a 2-byte unicode character, would my count go up by 1 or 2?

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also, is there any way to see the expected input and output for a challenge? i want to know where my code is failing.

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ok

Not true, my code on the E(uler) problem works on the sample but not for all of them.

ಠ益ಠ)

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same for me with the character repitition - it works for the sample, but not for submitting. I tried looking through the source code to find the test cases, but I couldn't find them.

I don't get it. How can I be stucked on the 1st level?
I enter the simplest code:


#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    int input;
    cin >> input;
    for( int i = 0; i < input; i++){
        cout << "Hello world!" << endl;
    }
}

and I get this error:
SyntaxError: private fields are not currently supported

Help pls :'(

It would be cool if it had support for C++. hm maybe you could get support with google......compiler...........????? I know next to nothing about it, but yeah? No? Just a suggestion :P

Oh sorry. My fault hehe

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it would have to compile and run the C++ in one step. This could be done, but you would have to probably port some tools for this, like Emscripten, to client side JS.

JavaScript

hmmm Idk bout that, that seems pretty hard. I was thinking more just getting a server that compiles and runs it for you and sends back the output, not doing it in the Client.

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the best way: just call os commands with unsanitized user input! What could go wrong?

hey hey hey well what I was thinking was this:
...

F wait your right

actually you could disallow some headers very easily for C++ actually, so couldn’t you just find any offensive/ dangerous headers and just spit the program back with an error if they’re there?

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what i'm saying is doing something like system(command + " test.whatever") but letting the user pick the command. Then they could do something like rm -rf /# and remove all your work

buuut you can easily just say oh. Look this guy put #include <cstdlib> on line 273, f u random person I’m not compiling that! or make a regular expression to find the system command and deny that instead for more fine grained searching and sanitation.

also they’d have to have the right permissions for that.

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but there are things other than system in <cstdlib> - what if the challenge needed them to use, say, malloc? As well, what if they made a function called system, but it was not malicious? Would you block, say, the following code?


#include <iostream>
#include <string>

void system(std::string cmd) {
    std::cout << "Not real!";
}

void main(void) {
    system("rm -rf /#");
}

that’s why you’d use a regex match instead of just looking for cstdlib instead.

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maybe to remove system files, but not to delete, say, the whole source of ecocode.

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