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Excited as ever for this. Got my toolkit ready. Trying to decide if I want to aim for something besides speed this year; maybe visualizations, or literate code. Given my current work, I probably won't focus on a new language.
I'm have seen people being really excited for AoC. What's so special about it?
Do you still need to sign up in order to use this? I've been wanting to do AoC for the past few years, but the mandatory signup prevented me from doing so. Just give me the tasks. I don't want any leaderboards or anything like that. Edit: The aspect of customized tasks does not require sign-ups. Just use a cookie or something.
Excited as ever for this. Got my toolkit ready. Trying to decide if I want to aim for something besides speed this year; maybe visualizations, or literate code. Given my current work, I probably won't focus on a new language.
This will be my first year. Can you explain what your toolkit is? I don’t have anything prepared and if people are going in with a toolkit it seems like I might not be prepared?
Excited as ever for this. Got my toolkit ready. Trying to decide if I want to aim for something besides speed this year; maybe visualizations, or literate code. Given my current work, I probably won't focus on a new language.
This will be my first year. Can you explain what your toolkit is? I don’t have anything prepared and if people are going in with a toolkit it seems like I might not be prepared?
My “toolkit” is Perl and an Emacs expansion that adds some boilerplate reading text files and stuffing them into a list.
Edit here's what's expanded when I type "aocinit" an empty buffer:
https://gist.github.com/gustafe/27be34b3c57728f40101a93a95ce...
This year I really want to try to use this to learn Rust. Are there any good practices or crates to handle file input like most of the problems give? As I recall, most of the time the input is delineated by spaces or linebreaks and it helps if you can carve it up easily right off the bat.
Do you still need to sign up in order to use this? I've been wanting to do AoC for the past few years, but the mandatory signup prevented me from doing so. Just give me the tasks. I don't want any leaderboards or anything like that. Edit: The aspect of customized tasks does not require sign-ups. Just use a cookie or something.
For me, this year, I'll give it another try to get into rust a bit more. Or maybe finally golang, after all these years of enterprisey java.
Excited as ever for this. Got my toolkit ready. Trying to decide if I want to aim for something besides speed this year; maybe visualizations, or literate code. Given my current work, I probably won't focus on a new language.
This will be my first year. Can you explain what your toolkit is? I don’t have anything prepared and if people are going in with a toolkit it seems like I might not be prepared?
Since it's your first year, none of that's needed - just enjoy the puzzles, and search for any useful patterns or tools as you go along. Eric's recommendation is to make the puzzles work for whatever goal you're aiming for - speed isn't necessarily one he recommends, instead recommending it as a tool to learn new languages, or to try new skills, such as visualization.