Advent of Code 2022
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Advent of Code 2022
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Re: Advent of Code 2022
#2I'm super excited for this, but also scared. These little puzzles are such a dopamine hit that I can't really be productive until I have that day solved. As the month progresses and the problems get harder, more and more of my time is consumed. Wondering if I should try to wake up early to start before work or just block the website on my work computers.
Re: Advent of Code 2022
#3I'm super excited for this, but also scared. These little puzzles are such a dopamine hit that I can't really be productive until I have that day solved. As the month progresses and the problems get harder, more and more of my time is consumed. Wondering if I should try to wake up early to start before work or just block the website on my work computers.
Why not challenge your boss? Sure, you won't get anything extra done, but they might not notice.
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#4As someone who codes basically only when AoC is around, and can solve like 70-80% of the puzzles, I am constantly wondering if this skill would be enough to get a job in the industry.
Obviously stuff like Git would still needed to be learned, but purely using AoC as a Benchmark of problem solving through using code, would that be enough?
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#5As someone who codes basically only when AoC is around, and can solve like 70-80% of the puzzles, I am constantly wondering if this skill would be enough to get a job in the industry. Obviously stuff like Git would still needed to be learned, but purely using AoC as a Benchmark of problem solving through using code, would that be enough?
Solving 70-80% of puzzles shows you are a good (very good?) small scale problem solver. A quick pursue of your code would probably also demonstrate sufficient proficiency in your language of choice.
As a hiring manager, residual concerns that I would try to get a handle of in interview would be:
* How do you deal with solving problems in larger systems, particularly in code you did not design, write, or perhaps even knew existed up to the point of discovering a problem
* Typical team work and communication problems.
Re: Advent of Code 2022
#6Advent started this Sunday. This is "First twenty five days of December of Code".
Wonder if I'll manage to get myself to join this year.
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#7I'm super excited for this, but also scared. These little puzzles are such a dopamine hit that I can't really be productive until I have that day solved. As the month progresses and the problems get harder, more and more of my time is consumed. Wondering if I should try to wake up early to start before work or just block the website on my work computers.
Totally agree. I always wake up early for these. The last 5-10 always take a decent chunk of time!
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#8Advent started this Sunday. This is "First twenty five days of December of Code". Wonder if I'll manage to get myself to join this year.
And the greeks started weeks ago, what's your point? It's a cute connection and a clever name, very obviously not directly tied to any religion especially not your specific church.
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#9I'll probably use Kotlin this year. But I probably won't get much farther than day 15 or so, when the difficulty ramps up. From then on it's mostly a question of knowing the specific algorithms.
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#10As someone who codes basically only when AoC is around, and can solve like 70-80% of the puzzles, I am constantly wondering if this skill would be enough to get a job in the industry. Obviously stuff like Git would still needed to be learned, but purely using AoC as a Benchmark of problem solving through using code, would that be enough?
Honestly, AoC style problems are pretty disconnected from day to day software engineering for most people. But being pretty good at them is absolutely not a bad thing. I wouldn’t fret about learning git though. As a new member of a team, people would get you up to speed on the basics of their workflow, and I wouldn’t want to spend time becoming a git wizard and then end up having to use a proprietary wrapper around perforce unless you truly love saying Merkle tree.