Perl Weekly Challenge 395‘s tasks are “Complex Number” and “Word Squares”.
Complex Number, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air,
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in a Word Square.
Perl Weekly Challenge 394‘s tasks are “Alternate Case” and “Alternating Vowels Consonants”.
The word isn’t a major part of the song, but “alternate” does get repeated and repeated at the end of side two of Tales from Topographic Oceans: “The Remembering (High the Memory)“. So, sure, have 20+ minutes of Yes from 1973 while we work on this challenge…
Perl Weekly Challenge 393‘s tasks are “Pythagoras Multiplied” and “Prime Steps”.
As much as I hate the band, when I saw “steps”, I thought of Gimmie Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Then I remembered three is a prime number.
sigh. Sometimes the songs pick themselves.
Perl Weekly Challenge 392‘s tasks are “Convert Palindrome” and “Words Length Product”.
If we want music with palindromes, you can’t do much better than “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Bob.
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).