It's that time of year again: Advent of Code. The site went live at midnight Eastern U.S. time (which means, on the west coast, I got a nice littl...
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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!
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?
Ryan, thanks for sharing your repo. I'm also learning Rust, just finished reading The Book and don't know much about the std lib just yet. Totally over-engineering day1 part2, because I didn't know about
iter.cycle:DAwesome! I'm discovering that the Iterator module in Rust is my favorite so far. :)
Every year I think I'm going to do these daily, and every year I have a Github graveyard ^^;
Also, anyone participating should also check out the subreddit for it! It's pretty active year-round and the guy who does all of it (seriously, all of it. I'm not convinced this guy sleeps at all during the year, let alone in December) is very active and maintains solution threads every day.
Oh yes, here's my repo, also with the links to the repos for the past editions. I've never had the time to complete all the challenges (and last year's repo has been horribly neglected 😩), so I hope I'll do better this year (it won't be hard!).
Good luck! 👍🏻
This is awesome! I did both of today's challenges and spun up a little WPF app to keep it all organized as I add to it throughout the month. My repo is here.
Advent of Code is my favorite coding challenge - I've been looking forward to it for awhile! I'm using JavaScript this year, same as the past two years - here's my repo - can't wait for some discussion! :)
This is perfect! Im trying to get a better handle on functional JS, and this is just what I was looking for. Thanks for the post!
Also, thank you to the staff member that fixed the tags for this post and made it look like I’m not a doofus. I sat there staring at the screen for like 5 minutes and couldn’t come up with any good tags. Totally forgot about the “news” tag. 🥇👌🏻
I'm going to follow along in Swift and use Playgrounds to do so just because they are fun to use and tinker in.
I've started a GitHub repo for my solutions. if anyone wants to try these. Be aware that they are Xcode 10 Playgrounds as that's the prod version of Xcode at this time.
Looking forward to the solutions!
I started AoC last year and I... did not get very far.
Here's to trying again. My repo is here and I'm trying in Crystal again: github.com/philnash/advent-of-code...
As always, I'm sticking to what I know, and going with PHP.
Solutions available here.