Google foobar is a secret coding challange presented by Google to people who search for programming related questions or topics on Google. Foobar presents a series of coding challenges of increasing difficulty, covering various computer science concepts and problem-solving skills. It is designed to discover and recruit talented developers for potential job opportunities at Google.
However this has been going on for a while so a lot of people see it more as just a cool easter egg on google now. If you want to find out more information about it here is a medium article by Mohit Gupta from 2018.
I was lucky enough for this invite to randomly pop-up for me one day which was a pretty cool experience :) this repo contains the problems I was given and my solutions for them. Each problem allows you to solve it in either python or java. For the submissions I choose python mainly because I'm more familiar with it but for this repo I have also completed the challanges in java using gradle as my build tool.
This repository is organized into levels (level-1, level-2, etc.), each containing different coding challenges. Each challenge has its own directory, which includes a README.md file and a solution.py file.
After completing the challange there is a an encrypted message, the decrypt.py file contains the code to decrypt this message, the key being the username for the account which the challange was completed, in my case deanlogan42.
The file journal.txt contains the logs after completing each of the challanges.
Each challenge directory contains:
- A
README.mdfile: This file contains the problem statement and any specific instructions or constraints for the challenge. - A
solution.pyfile: This file contains the Python code that solves the challenge.
To run the solution for a specific challenge, run the solution.py file using Python by giving the corresponding folder directory. For example, to run the solution for the "braille-translation" challenge in level-1, you would use the following command:
python ./level-1/braille-translation/solution.py