Little Puzzles with Haskell

Tried reworking some of my CodeWars puzzles

String Repeat

• This was one to repeat a string given a char and number of times it is to be repeated

Negative or Not (Some may be already)

• This is one to make a number negative if it isn’t or otherwise leave it

Remove first and Last

• This was one to remove the head and last element of a list. In Python, you’d do this by slicing.
• In Haskell, I did this by using drop and take. Drop the 1st element lazily after the string is taken except the last element.

Alternative Solution

• Check out this solution, though. Drop the first. Reverse, drop the first (which is the last) and then reverse again. Woah! Sick!

Otherwise

• On page 134 of Haskellbook. I’m quite enjoying it.
• I also formatted my Statement of Purpose a bit.
• I spoke to my mentor, who is psyched about my Fortran assignment :D He wanted to know if I could us Fortran 2008 instead of 77 :D

Doing Haskell

• Doing Haskell daily makes you ten times more excited to go to BayHac and those kinds of events. I mean, I’m always happy to hang out with Haskellinos, but now I’m kind of ecstatic. I’m excited to see how my mind has changed since last year, and to learn more.
• Oh, I’m voluteering tomorrow at SCALE
• Doing my Fortran assignment over the next few days
• Going to Google’s Int’l Women’s Day event on Saturday
• I also volunteered to help on a committee (tech related). I’m always excited to give back.

Update on my Skype Interview

• Really, really thorough. It was about at least four hours. I got great insight into PL Research and what I would need to strengthen my application. Specifically, I’ve been advised to just apply to a PhD Program.
• It helped a lot in strengthening my application and I have four pages of notes of insights I got that were really, really valuable. I can’t thank this particular computer scientist enough. It really meant a lot.

That’s about it!