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ASCII Birthday Cake
Given an age and a name, give draw an ASCII birthday cake. For example, given the name "CODY" and the age 5, return a string wit...

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Find the nearest prime number
Happy 5th birthday, Cody! Since 5 is a prime number, let's have some fun looking for other prime numbers. Given a positive in...

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Extra safe primes
Did you know that the number 5 is the first safe prime? A safe prime is a prime number that can be expressed as 2p+1, where p is...

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Minefield Sonar
*Background* In mine-hunting games (e.g. Microsoft Minesweeper), the user is provided with a covered grid that, upon a left c...

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Stuff the Board
You have a stack of tiles to put onto an array-like playing board. Each tile has a number (always an integer), and the board var...

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Rotate and display numbered tile
Imagine a square tile with four numbers on it, one on each edge. We will call these edges north, east, south, and west. If th...

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Find best domino orientation
Given a list of pairs, find the orientation they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the dif...

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Choose the best fitting dominoes
You will be given a cell array of nx2 matrices. Choose one row from each matrix. These are the ordered pairs that will be plac...

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Find best placement for ordered dominoes (harder)
Given a list of ordered pairs, find the order they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the d...

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Find perfect placement of non-rotating dominoes (easier)
Given a list of ordered pairs, find the order they should be placed in a line, such that the sum of the absolute values of the d...

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Scoring for oriented dominoes
Given a list of ordered pairs, and the order they should be placed in a line, find the sum of the absolute values of the differe...

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The End of the World
given a date -- represent it in the Maya long count system. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar> <https://maya.nm...

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Lost days
Given two dates in a particular format, calculate the difference between them.

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Leap Year
According to Gregorian Calender(which is in use now, in many countries),decide whether a given year is a leap year or not. Give...

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leap year
find the number of leap years within the given time interval

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Friday or not
I love Friday. Please tell me whether the day is Friday. Dateformat is 'yyyy-mm-dd' or 'dd-mmm-yyyy' or 'mm/dd/yyyy'. Exa...

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Datetime basics
Generate the datetime scalar representing the current date

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Find the day for a date
Today's day and date will be given to you. By utilising that you need to find the day of the old date. (Date will be in DD/MM/YY...

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Friday the 13th
According to superstition, lots of unpleasant stuff happens on Friday the 13th, so you might like to find the next occurence of ...

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Day counter function
Write a function called _day_counter_ that returns the number of Mondays that fell on the first day of the month in a given year...

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Count the days
Count the occurrence of a particular day (e.g. Monday) in a given year.

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How long until the weekend?
Write a function a that takes a date vector as an input and returns the number of hours until the weekend begins. The beginning...

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Days until next NewYear ball drop
Given a date string in the form 'yyyy-mm-dd' or 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss', calculate the number of *days* until the dropping of the ...

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longest common substring : Skipped character version
Two strings are given. Find the longest common substring between them. The substring characters need not be adjacent. They, howe...

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Cat, Meowcat and Concatenation
Input is a cell array containing several strings. Find the largest continuous sub-string common to all strings. All strings are ...

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From a given cell array of strings, extract the non-unique strings.
We are given a cell array of strings C. From this cell array we require to extract the subset of non-unique strings, returning t...

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Beauty of Parentheses
Given a string consisting of closed parentheses, form a string array in the following way so that the orders of these parenthese...

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Adding Cells with numbers defined as strings
Given a cell, with strings representing numbers, add each value. For example: a = {'9','33'}; the output should be: ...

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Decrypt the cypher using XOR encryption (for beginners)
Inspired by Project Euler n°59 Each character on a computer is assigned a unique code and the preferred standard is ASCII (...

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Did you say please? - Find one string within another without strfind or regexp/regexpi
For a given string sentence, determine if the string word 'please' is present or not. If so, return the string 'OK', else return...

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