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Re: Advent of Code 2017

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I'll have to come by again tomorrow, but I must say the design of the site is beautiful . The content is immediately clear, and as you look closer it's clear that the author put some very subtle design touches on, but they aren't overwhelming. Well done!

Indeed, Advent of Code is easily one of the best computer games.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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> This year I need to make sure I do the graph search problems properly I'm guessing this year it might be some other 'common theme' for the tasks, and we might not see as many graph-problems as in 2016. But learning graph searches cannot hurt you either way :)

Are there any good resources you'd recommend on learning how to effectively work with/search graphs?

If you want some Graph Theory challenges to solve there is a track at HackeRank

https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/algorithms/graph-theory

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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So, what are people gonna work in? Anything interesting? I am myself thinking about doing the challanges in Powershell. Because why not suffer more on this earth.

Powershell seems fitting. Advent is a penitential season after all.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Since Peter Norvig has been topical this week, here are his great instructional ipython notebook solutions to last years AoC challenges[1]. [1] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Advent%20...

This was an incredibly satisfying format for this. Cool!

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Advent of Code is an amazing achievement. Designing all the puzzles, writing code to generate all those different inputs for everyone, keeping the site going, somehow managing to create this wonderful community of problem solvers... I loved it last year. I've already paid my AoC++ this year. The least I can do for a month and more (because I never do a puzzle a day, and still haven't finished last year's) of fun. Thi…

> This year I need to make sure I do the graph search problems properly I'm guessing this year it might be some other 'common theme' for the tasks, and we might not see as many graph-problems as in 2016. But learning graph searches cannot hurt you either way :)

In that case I hope he ditches assembly instead :)

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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I love AoC! Last year was the first time I got all 50 stars, as I was motivated by a competition held by a Swedish podcast. This year, I'm even hosting a pub meetup about halfway through December, centered around Advent of Code, where a group of us hopefully can help each other out.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

#57

So, what are people gonna work in? Anything interesting? I am myself thinking about doing the challanges in Powershell. Because why not suffer more on this earth.

Moving from Python 2 to Python 3. I sort of debated learning something new, like Haskell. But I want to be competitive, and that means language familiarity.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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I'm doing it this year. In D, because I'm stubborn, enjoy the language, and couldn't immediately get to like Rust. Going by hype, I have a feeling learning Rust will some day be as inevitable as interacting with git, but for the moment I'm sticking to D.

That remains to be seen, but I firmly believe you should do AoC in something you enjoy!

First attempt at doing it in Racket this year. I actually got through a bunch just using R last year.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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I'm doing it this year. In D, because I'm stubborn, enjoy the language, and couldn't immediately get to like Rust. Going by hype, I have a feeling learning Rust will some day be as inevitable as interacting with git, but for the moment I'm sticking to D.

Out of curiosity, what do you enjoy about D?
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