Launching Erdos and CodeBot
We are proud to announce two new applications from SDSLabs: Erdős and CodeBot. Both are immediately available to all users. While Erdős is currently an internal application, CodeBot can be used by anyone across the world.
Erdős
Erdős is an application for Math Geeks to try out new mathematical problems and keep track of who solves what. Named after one of the most prolific mathematician of all times, Paul Erdős, it is a portal for users to test their mettle on various mathematical problems, some of which may require users to write code.
The design of Erdős is clean and card-based, with a focus on user-interaction above everything else. Go give it a try at https://erdos.sdslabs.co.in and let us know what you think.
Lots of exciting features such as gamification (badges), more analytics & visualizations, contests are in the pipeline and will be public soon!
CodeBot
Many of you may have heard of Project Euler, a collection of various mathematical problems ranging in difficulty from easy to extremely hard. CodeBot is a stylized, terminal-style alternative interface to Project Euler. It is an online application, available for everyone at http://codebot.sdslabs.co.in/. You can create a new account and submit solutions to the Project Euler problems. The problems are re-used from Project Euler under a Creative Commons licence.
With the introduction of CodeBot and Erdős, we are now discontinuing CodeMatics, some parts of which were re-used for CodeBot. We also plan to hold regular contests on Erdős, similar to the CodeBlitz contests we have on CodeVillage.
Technical Details
- Both Erdős and CodeBot emerged as weekend hacks, which were then polished over to iron the kinks before their public launch.
- CodeBot uses node.js for the backend, and redis as the storage mechanism, while being hosted on Heroku.
- Programming and Algorithms Group (PAG), IITR has agreed to help us out in keeping Erdős updated with new problems.
- Erdős uses Chart.js to generate all the awesome visualizations.