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From: DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
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 jumble a sentence, then restore it
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On 3/7/2024 1:38 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:10:27 -0500, DFS wrote:
> 
>> I haven't started yet, but I figure it's about 5-8 lines in python.  Too
>> easy.  So it has to be written in C.
> 
> https://nostarch.com/impracticalpythonprojects
> 
> I couldn't work up too much interest in the anagrams and cryptography
> chapters but one exercise is the Union route Cipher.
> 
> https://programmingpraxis.com/2012/03/06/union-route-cipher/
> 
> Spice up your challenge! A point he makes with one of the more complex
> ciphers is while code can do the grunt work human intervention is needed
> to sort the fly shit from the pepper since you'll get grammatically
> correct sentences like Chomsky's 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously'.


I did one like this 22 years ago:
https://programmingpraxis.com/2009/08/07/adfgx/

Wrote a working VB app to demo it.
https://imgur.com/a/A4FPlOC