Perl Weekly Challenge 391‘s tasks are “Array Median” and “Arrange Box”.
I was trying really hard to think of some music to go with “array”, “median”, or “arrange”… when a voice in my head hit me with a brick and said “Music. Box. The Musical Box, you bozo.”
So have 10+ minutes of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis to enjoy while you read my solutions to this week’s challenge.
Perl Weekly Challenge 390‘s tasks are “Decode String” and “Order Characters”.
Remember back in April, when PWC 369 had a task “Group Division”, and that made me think of the group Joy Division? Yeah, well “Order Characters” made me think of New Order, which is the band Joy Division turned into. So while we’re enjoying this coding challenge, enjoy all seven and a half minutes of Blue Monday.
Perl Weekly Challenge 389‘s tasks are “Reorder Notes” and “ZigZag Subarray”.
There’s a Roy Orbison song called Zig Zag from the soundtrack of a 1970 movie by the same name. It’s not that great compared to other Roy songs, but then again, it’s not that bad, either.
Perl Weekly Challenge 388‘s tasks are “Dyck Words” and “Secret Santa”.
Well, normally my brain would work like this: I think “Dyck” sounds like “Dyke”, which reminds me of Dick Van Dyke, and that makes me think…
Then yesterday we all got the news: Dolly Parton died. So let’s enjoy some Santa-adjacent Dolly Parton music: Hard Candy Christmas.
But as I was finishing up, I heard Dolly’s voice in my head:
Continue reading🎶 Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be 🎶
🎶 With my code of many colors that my mama taught to me 🎶
Perl Weekly Challenge 387‘s tasks are “Rearrange Binary String” and “Atoms Count”.
When I saw that one of this week’s tasks was counting atoms, I thought “This is a job for PARTICLE MAN!!!“
Perl Weekly Challenge 386‘s tasks are “Reverse Base” and “Rational Numbers”.
I figured, since both tasks are all about Algebra, we should listen to some Tom Lehrer (lyrics & sheet music).
Perl Weekly Challenge 385‘s tasks are “Uncommon Words” and “Outermost Parentheses”.
I thought I remembered one of my favored artists doing a song featuring “uncommon”, and the first one that popped up in my music collection was Carole King: An Uncommon Love.
Perl Weekly Challenge 384‘s tasks are “Base N” and “Special Binary Substrings”.
I asked my wife about the music, and she said “Base N? Basin. Basin Street Blues.” So I went on a journey down a rabbit hole of an old jazz/blues standard. I picked the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong version to play here.
Perl Weekly Challenge 383‘s tasks are “Similar List” and “Nearest RGB”.
Since this week’s tasks are both about finding things that are close, but not exact, and because my wife has us on a Weird Al kick lately, let’s pick Close But No Cigar as this week’s musical selection.
Perl Weekly Challenge 382‘s tasks are “Hamiltonian Cycle” and “Replace Question Mark”.
As soon as I saw “Hamiltonian”, I knew I needed to use a song from Hamilton: An American Musical… but I couldn’t decide which song best fit with “Cycle”. So I did what I always do when I’m stumped for a creative choice: I asked my wife.
“The Hamilton Polka“, she immediately responded.1 “It’s a five-minute song cycle.”
When she’s right, she’s right.