JavaScript Coding Challenges

When it comes to programming, I am a big fan of two things: JavaScript and Coding Challenges! And I can't be happier than when I'm able to combine these two! 😃

I've (re)started recently to not only play with different Coding Challenges on sites like HackerRank, CodeWars or CodeSignal, but I'm also writing my own solutions with explanation for these challenges on my blog.

You can find a list of all the different Coding Challenges that I've tackled and solved using JavaScript:

• Where do I Belong?
• Seek and Destroy
• Birthday Cake Candles
• Beautiful Days at Movies
• Regular Brackets
• Regular Brackets - follow-up
• Create a Phone Number

If you are interested in solving the challenges, make sure that you solve them on your own before reading the solution as this will help you learn much more in the long run. By doing so at the end you might end up having two solutions for the same problem, which is a double win! 😉

I'm planning to write more blog posts in the future on this topic and I'd love to get your opinion on it. Is this something you are interested in reading? Are you also a fan of Coding Challenges? What about JavaScript?

All the feedback is highly appreciated! Thank you, amazing community of devs! 🙏

P.S. I'm going to update this list whenever I'm writing a new blog post, so if you are interested in reading more, make sure that you bookmark this post or you visit the challenges section on my blog often. (Or you can receive these posts directly into your inbox by clicking here).

Comments

[Sundeep]

heads up, you've got a typo - missing 'c' in Regular Brakets

I have a few beginner to intermediate level exercises for Python - you could translate them to Javascript if you are interested :)

I also have some resource links for practice ideas and sites - might help you get more challenges to solve

[mehdibenhemdene]

Suggested alternative solution for "Where do I belong" using Array.prototype.filter:

var array = [1, 2, 3, 4];

function getIndexToIns(arr, number) {
  let result = arr.sort().filter(el => el <= number).length;
  return result;
}

console.log(getIndexToIns(array, 8));

[mehdibenhemdene]

Also a simple "Destroyer" implementation:

function destroyer(arr, ...params) {
  return arr.filter(el=>!params.includes(el));
}

[Ram Newton]

function destroyer(arr, ...params){
    params_set = new Set(params);
    return arr.filter(item => !(params_set.has(item)))
};

.includes() does a linear search. Creating a set out of the parameters and using the .has() method will improve performance

[Matt MacPherson]

Check out Edabit; I think you'll like it.

[Ricardo Pedroso]

Thanks for the post, I had a lot of fun going through these exercises!

For the phone number one, I'll leave here my one line solution:

Have a nice day :)

[Deepak Pal]

Good Post to read and thank for sharing the links

[Florin Pop]

My pleasure! ☺️

[Daniel Med]

Thank you so much for that , as a developer I think the only way to define you level is by solving coding challenges , hope we see some other challenges

[Florin Pop]

This is what I’m planning to do! 😃

[Rahul Parshi]

Nice idea and it will be helpful in interviews also as we can explain them more clearly..

[Florin Pop]

Exactly! Very happy to help! ☺️

[Daniel Borowski]

Check out Coderbyte, lots of coding challenges and interview prep material!