PowerShell challenge

I'd like a PowerShell challenge...

So, post a challenge here (no answers please), and I promise I'll send a
PowerShell book (of your choice) to the most challenging puzzle or task
writer. Maybe even to the 2 most challenging...

Marco

I think writing a Sudoku game in Powershell would be pretty
interesting, not only a decent exercise in winforms, but the logic to
produce the puzzle would be kind of cool to learn as well.

-Andy

On Apr 10, 10:59 am, "Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote:
> I'd like a PowerShell challenge...
>
> So, post a challenge here (no answers please), and I promise I'll send a
> PowerShell book (of your choice) to the most challenging puzzle or task
> writer. Maybe even to the 2 most challenging...
>
> Marco

Given input $s of type [scriptblock], determine whether $s terminates or
not.

Mike

"Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote in message
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> I'd like a PowerShell challenge...
>
> So, post a challenge here (no answers please), and I promise I'll send a
> PowerShell book (of your choice) to the most challenging puzzle or task
> writer. Maybe even to the 2 most challenging...
>
> Marco
>

hello,everyone here:
I want to do a powershell version of matrix screensaver.
But I can't get any clue to do this.
Could anybody help me?
Thanks

--
greeting

applepwc

I'll trump that with Chess. It is certainly more challenging than Sudoku -
for me at least.

But the idea of the logic of creating a Sudoku would be tough, IMHO. Given a
valid sudoku puzzle, could one write a script that could determine which
number(s) could be removed without introducing the possibility of more than
a single solution?

/Al

"ASCHNEIDER146" <aschneider146@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I think writing a Sudoku game in Powershell would be pretty
> interesting, not only a decent exercise in winforms, but the logic to
> produce the puzzle would be kind of cool to learn as well.
>
> -Andy
>
> On Apr 10, 10:59 am, "Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote:
>> I'd like a PowerShell challenge...
>>
>> So, post a challenge here (no answers please), and I promise I'll send a
>> PowerShell book (of your choice) to the most challenging puzzle or task
>> writer. Maybe even to the 2 most challenging...
>>
>> Marco
>
>

If you have a product which is used by a end-user (customer) who is not very
technology oriented person.
There are many customers who use this product and are dissatisfied with its
performance.

Create a simple profiling tool that analyzed a customer's hardware (physical
machine, network speed, server, etc) and provided recommendataions in
customer language that described the biggest bottleneck and how to fix it.


"Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub@hotmail.com.nospaam> wrote in message
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> I'll trump that with Chess. It is certainly more challenging than Sudoku -
> for me at least.
>
> But the idea of the logic of creating a Sudoku would be tough, IMHO. Given
> a valid sudoku puzzle, could one write a script that could determine which
> number(s) could be removed without introducing the possibility of more
> than a single solution?
>
> /Al
>
> "ASCHNEIDER146" <aschneider146@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1176239392.098760.90180@30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>>I think writing a Sudoku game in Powershell would be pretty
>> interesting, not only a decent exercise in winforms, but the logic to
>> produce the puzzle would be kind of cool to learn as well.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> On Apr 10, 10:59 am, "Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote:
>>> I'd like a PowerShell challenge...
>>>
>>> So, post a challenge here (no answers please), and I promise I'll send a
>>> PowerShell book (of your choice) to the most challenging puzzle or task
>>> writer. Maybe even to the 2 most challenging...
>>>
>>> Marco
>>
>>
>
>

On Apr 10, 10:09 pm, "ASCHNEIDER146" <aschneider...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think writing a Sudoku game in Powershell would be pretty
> interesting, not only a decent exercise in winforms, but the logic to
> produce the puzzle would be kind of cool to learn as well.
>
> -Andy
>

If you're interested in the logic for solving a puzzle, take a look at
Donald Knuth's Dancing Links algorithm, it'll crack any sudoku puzzle
in a split second. You could reveal the whole puzzle, or only part
(user selects blank squares and wants them converted to 'givens' as a
hint).

It'd be good to see how to 'tack on' a GUI and handle events to a
script, etc. esp. for WPF/XAML (as I haven't played with these yet).

Could make a nice series for PowershellLive?

Regards,

Duncan.

I previously posted this under a different thread; "Wish List
Powershell Tool Bar"
I would like to add a tool bar to the taskbar that works like the
google tool bar ( or as it was pointed out to me 'SlickRun') except
you type in a command that is executed in
PowerShell. This would eliminate the latency between firing up
powershell (or RUN-> *.ps1 file) and submitting a command.

Perhaps activating the tool bar would invoke an invisible instance of
Powershell (Then there should be a way to toggle it between
invisible
and invisible.) and the toolbar would would serve as an alternate
input stream to that instance of Powershell.
Fred Jacobowitz

Personally, the bloat of these search-type bars are starting to bug me. It
is a neat idea, but in practice, I don't find the idea that productive. I
mean start powershell.exe in the StartUp group and use it. When your not
using it...minimize it. Your always a click away and you get the whole
console window for output. And you can restart it when needed (i.e. lock,
crash, etc). Not clear how you would do that cleanly with a search bar
bound to a runspace.

--
William Stacey [C# MVP]
PCR concurrency library: www.codeplex.com/pcr
PSH Scripts Project www.codeplex.com/psobject


"Fred J." <swim.instructor@gmail.com> wrote in message
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|I previously posted this under a different thread; "Wish List
| Powershell Tool Bar"
| I would like to add a tool bar to the taskbar that works like the
| google tool bar ( or as it was pointed out to me 'SlickRun') except
| you type in a command that is executed in
| PowerShell. This would eliminate the latency between firing up
| powershell (or RUN-> *.ps1 file) and submitting a command.
|
| Perhaps activating the tool bar would invoke an invisible instance of
| Powershell (Then there should be a way to toggle it between
| invisible
| and invisible.) and the toolbar would would serve as an alternate
| input stream to that instance of Powershell.
| Fred Jacobowitz
|
|
|
|

Fred J. wrote:
> I previously posted this under a different thread; "Wish List
> Powershell Tool Bar"
> I would like to add a tool bar to the taskbar that works like the
> google tool bar ( or as it was pointed out to me 'SlickRun') except
> you type in a command that is executed in
> PowerShell. This would eliminate the latency between firing up
> powershell (or RUN-> *.ps1 file) and submitting a command.
>
> Perhaps activating the tool bar would invoke an invisible instance of
> Powershell (Then there should be a way to toggle it between
> invisible
> and invisible.) and the toolbar would would serve as an alternate
> input stream to that instance of Powershell.
> Fred Jacobowitz

I wrote a blog entry explaining how to create the registry entries to invoke powershell from the address-bar, note that there are serous security issues with this technique
--
Joris van Lier
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