Hello Geek,

The section has been kinda unusually dull for some times now..

lets try this: (though I have the solution already in Java), but the Time and Efficiency of the program is what we are going to be looking into.
Taking Algorithm, library Functions used and all that into consideration.

THE PROBLEM:

Start with any positive number n. If n is even divide it by 2, if n is odd multiply by 3 and add 1. Repeat until n becomes 1. The sequence that is generated is called a bumpy sequence. For example, the bumpy sequence that starts at n = 10 is:
10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
and the one that starts at 11 is
11, 34, 17, 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
Create a method with the signature int lengthBumpy(int n)

such that lengthBumpy(n)returns the number of elements in the sequence

For example: lengthBumpy(10) returns 7, and lengthBumpy(11) returns 15.
You may assume that the argument n is positive and that the sequence converges to 1 without arithmetic overflow.

You can write your solutions in any language

function BumpyLength(number){
while(number != 1){
if((number % 2) == 0){
number=number / 2;
}else{
number=(number * 3) + 1;
}
console.log("%s,",number);
}
}

JavaScript Version

had issues using recursive functions. i guess Js hates that

@pc guru..very concise snippet there..but the output will be the sequence and not the length..
I mean console.log() would only print the numbers to the console(probably meant for debugging purpose)

@fayimora!..scala?..am lost..30lines??..pretty much!..explanation pls @ ur leisure..

Sorry was in class when i did this, didn't read through,
function BumpyLength(number){
var _array=[];
var addOne=function(ar){
return (1 + ar.length);
}
while(number != 1){
if((number % 2) == 0){
number=number / 2;
_array.push(number);
}else{
number=(number * 3) + 1;
_array.push(number);
}

}
console.log("The Length of array is %s,",addOne(_array));
}

@Fayiomora so cool you also use Sublime on Ubuntu,that's python right ?

Missing Python.

i thought it was way way easier to read, oh you use vim ? mehn guy my hat goes off to you, last time i did, i almost killed someone, oops i could have sworn it was python.

@pc guru..yeah!..good one there bro..*though javascrpt iz a cheat*
*even checked ur site and was like wow!..especially texts about the YII framework.u v gone far bro..
itz jst that i dnt lyk php..maybe later.

@fayimora..alright!..u're not sounding/coding lyk a typical naija programmer at all.gess u're nt based here in my fatherland..I love the vim on mac and the "uncommon" programming languages u code..but I can't really spend time learning those stuffz now.. cos
here in Naija, the economy/market decides what technology we learn and use.

lets see what some peeps gat abt this stuff in C or any other lang without making use of some 'sophisticated' data structure technique lyk arraylist, stringdictionary, and all that instead applying recursion to generate the sequence..thatz exactly what fayimora did..

Alright!..
Its all good.