Is anyone taking part in the Advent of Code this year?
If you've not heard of it before, the site describes itself as:
Advent of Code is a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels. They are self-contained and are just as appropriate for an expert who wants to stay sharp as they are for a beginner who is just learning to code. Each puzzle calls upon different skills and has two parts that build on a theme.
I feel like I've seen the site in previous years, but I haven't taken part before. I am having a go this year and I am going to be writing my solutions in Crystal after writing a couple of articles on it earlier this year.
I'm also sharing my solutions on GitHub if you want to check them out. A quick search shows up other solutions too.
Are you having a go at the Advent of Code? Have you got your first two stars yet?
Top comments (18)
Gave up after 2 day, let's see how it will go this year
I'm using rust btw, thinking about trying something else as well, but unsure what that would be
I was tempted to try in another language too. Rust is very trendy right now, and I have tried to learn it before, but didn't really have much to do with it afterwards. Now that Rust is becoming a great choice for web assembly it might be time to try it again.
That's a problem I have with learning new languages as well, I start learning, but then don't know what to do with them
Advent of code is a really well-made website. Really hits on the right design and then gets out of the way.
It's a site for writing code, why would it need any more than a monospaced text interface?!
Here you go: Github Link
I will be doing everything in Python. I hardcoded the inputs into the files themselves, such that each day is one file. I think I will change that in the future, if the inputs become too big.
I will check out your solutions :D
Thanks for sharing! I wondered what to do with the inputs too, I've settled on a text file for each challenge. If anything, I'll remember how to load files after all of this!
I’m in! I’d never heard of this before now, but it looks cool :) Here’s my solutions.. Thanks for sharing this!
Oh,
Array#rotateis perfect! My first version I'd zipped the arrays together like that, but then did it differently for the general case and ultimately converged on that solution. But I think I want to rewrite mine now, since Crystal supportsrotatetoo!Originally i was just doing it with the index and math, but then I was scrolling through the array docs looking for something neat and found rotate. I didn’t to know about it, but it’s supercool :)
Never tried it before, I'll try to participate too !
Posting my solutions on Github, I think that I'll use Python3
That is a tight solution for day 2! 👏👏👏
Efficient enough to go to day 3! :D
I have taken part in 2015, used PHP to solve the puzzles.
Last year I missed it completely, this year I might just take part again... hmm... maybe use another language too.
It's a great little test to see how you are doing with a new language. I'm enjoying trying it with Crystal because it's still new to me, though familiar since it's like Ruby.
Give it a go! Let us know if you do take part and how it goes.
I just found out about AOC yesterday, so I'm still playing catch-up but it's been a great
Python refresher so far.
Though, I'm considering trying some of the puzzles in one of the many languages that I've been wanting to learn.
Here's my solutions repo.
I'm a bit late to the party this year, but I'll be putting my solutions in my AdventOfCode repo on GitHub! :D
Funny how dev.to challenge kind of predicted the beginning of day 3!