Brainfuck is an incredibly simple esoteric programming language that serves no real purpose other than to challenge masochistic programmers. Brainfuck works by manipulating bytes of memory with 8 possible instructions:
>Shift right to the next byte of memory<Shift left to the previous byte of memory+Increment the current byte of memory by 1-Decrement the current byte of memory by 1.Output the current byte of memory,Assign a byte of input to the current byte of memory[Jump to the instruction after the matching]when the current byte is equal to 0]Jumpt to the instruction after the matching[when the current byte is not equal to 0
The following resources are incredibly helpful in understanding the history and nature of the brainfuck language:
The real purpose of this project is to improve my problem solving skills and to build my portfolio. I also just think it would be a lot of fun.
It is worth noting that I have minimal experience in writing brainfuck code. The little research I have done on existing brainfuck programs has shown that most people have fine-tuned their projects to be efficient and clever. While I believe that is a good thing to do, I think it would be beneficial to learn these tricks as I go. I will not be improving the challenges after I complete them in order to make the learning process accesible to anyone else who might be idiotic enough to follow in my footsteps through this stupid journey.