I would love to start a thread to discuss these every day, but I'm not sure what the best format for that would be, maybe a series? Also, here's my repo, it's my first year so I'm doing Python (classic) but hopefully they may be helpful for someone!
I'm doing it in Kotlin because my end-of-year challenge is studying for the OSCP exams, so I'm being lazy with learning new languages. If you step up the dirtree there you can see some of my previous year solutions as well as some explorations I've done later with different languages.
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
That sounds like a great idea! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a series of discussion posts, but that definitely seems like the right format for it. 👍🏻 They have a discussion subreddit, but why use reddit when you can use DEV.to?!
Exactly! I really dislike Reddit which is why I would love to have something inspired by it on here! It could be formatted like my coding puzzle posts, but I kind of what somebody else to take the reigns on it to get more involved with the community!
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
Ooh ok! I’ll give it a go. 😁 I’ll be open to any suggestions you have too.
Another thought. I think you can make private leaderboards on their site, separate from the worldwide. Does that seem like fun to add a little DEV competition?
Yes! That would be awesome -- totally down for that! Thread + leaderboard would be so cool! (even though I'm totally not staying up till midnight to solve haha)
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
I’ll add it when I get home. You two can be mods (about to ship some better tag mod tooling next week which will make it actually useful to assign mods 😅)
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
I filled in some of the values, but @aspittel
, definitely feel free to completely change everything if you have better ideas for the descriptions, rules, or colors 🎄 🔥
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
I decided to attempt these challenges with Python, as it is a language I would like to learn in the upcoming year, and I want to thank you for sharing! Your solutions are far more elegant than my clunky noob attempts so far, and I'm sure they will continue to be a good way for me to discover new syntax/approaches in the upcoming days.
As far as format, I think a series would be good, that way we can post our solutions in the threads and really focus on the daily problems.
I would love to start a thread to discuss these every day, but I'm not sure what the best format for that would be, maybe a series? Also, here's my repo, it's my first year so I'm doing Python (classic) but hopefully they may be helpful for someone!
Let's all share our repos! Mine is here!
I'm doing it in Kotlin because my end-of-year challenge is studying for the OSCP exams, so I'm being lazy with learning new languages. If you step up the dirtree there you can see some of my previous year solutions as well as some explorations I've done later with different languages.
That sounds like a great idea! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a series of discussion posts, but that definitely seems like the right format for it. 👍🏻 They have a discussion subreddit, but why use reddit when you can use DEV.to?!
Exactly! I really dislike Reddit which is why I would love to have something inspired by it on here! It could be formatted like my coding puzzle posts, but I kind of what somebody else to take the reigns on it to get more involved with the community!
Neat idea! Well, let me know if you can’t find anybody else to do it, and I’d be happy to do it.
You should totally go for it @rpalo ! That would be awesome, especially since you did the first post 🙌🏻
Ooh ok! I’ll give it a go. 😁 I’ll be open to any suggestions you have too.
Another thought. I think you can make private leaderboards on their site, separate from the worldwide. Does that seem like fun to add a little DEV competition?
Yes! That would be awesome -- totally down for that! Thread + leaderboard would be so cool! (even though I'm totally not staying up till midnight to solve haha)
Ha! 10 points for the 9PM west coast start!
Bam! Day 1!
We’ll make #adventofcode featured on the sidebar experimentally
I’ll add it when I get home. You two can be mods (about to ship some better tag mod tooling next week which will make it actually useful to assign mods 😅)
Okay, you two have tag mod powers (which right now are pretty limited, but some more coming soon)
dev.to/t/adventofcode/edit
I FEEL THE POWER!
I filled in some of the values, but @aspittel , definitely feel free to completely change everything if you have better ideas for the descriptions, rules, or colors 🎄 🔥
Haha added emojis -- may try and play with colors, underratedly hard to make red and green look good together.
Also make note that views darken/lighten colors to add contrast so you have to be pretty conservative with what you try 🙃
Hmm. Guess that rules out cranking the intensity up to 100%. Duly noted. 😬
I decided to attempt these challenges with Python, as it is a language I would like to learn in the upcoming year, and I want to thank you for sharing! Your solutions are far more elegant than my clunky noob attempts so far, and I'm sure they will continue to be a good way for me to discover new syntax/approaches in the upcoming days.
As far as format, I think a series would be good, that way we can post our solutions in the threads and really focus on the daily problems.
Oh awesome, for sure -- Python is my favorite language by far, so glad to see another person learning it!
I think a thread would be great too -- hmm.