I have done Project Euler very sporadically since high school. To date I've only done problems 1-54. Despite this, I think the website was a big contributor to my love of programming. I found it before knowing about leetcode and I think it prepared me well. I think I owe Project Euler a decent %-age of my eventual entry into Software Engineering as a field.

This website was a part of my education as a computer scientist and seeing it here again I'm curious for the full story of how this site was made. Who made it, what do they do now, is it part of a broader project they have?

There is only very basic info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Euler

Like many others here, Project Euler was foundational in my education and growth as a programmer.

Leonhard Euler himself is an incredible figure and arguably the most prodigious contributor to mathematics throughout history. So much so that people started naming things discovered by him after the next person to have proved them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_named_after_Leo...

Glanced at the exercises. It appears that two of them have numbers arranged in a triangle and ask for a longest path.

Hmm. Given such a triangle, let m be the largest number in the triangle. For each x in the triangle, replace it with m - x. For the resulting triangle, solve it to give the shortest path using one of the well known network shortest path algorithms.

I discovered project euler as a novice programmer in high school around 15 years ago. I loved how solving a problem unlocks a secret forum only available to other solvers. I would spend hours reading through everyone's prior solutions and trying to understand them. One guy had tagged his profile as "haskell" but would always provide his solutions in ruby which threw child-me for quite a loop (I actually thought ruby and haskell were the same language for some time)!

A great one of my favorite websites of the past. Wonder how they are coping with the issue of their users using AI to solve problems.

The most fun on this site is solving a problem and then having your mind blown by solutions in Apl/j/k and trying to guess what they mean without knowing anything about those languages

I attribute project euler for instilling the playful enjoyment of writing programs in college while I was studying electrical and computer engineering. I owe my career to it!

I remember visiting Project Euler back in 2013/14 or so. Was really my first introduction to programming exercises as youngin. Probably did fifteen or so of them before ADHD kicked in though. A small gem on the web.

Wow, I can't believe this is still around! I'm glad to see artifacts from the past like this are still out there on the internet.

Makes me miss Google CodeJam though.

I solved a few using AWK, fun: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/projecteuler