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Re: Advent of Code 2022

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As 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?

Being able to solve 80% of AoC is nothing to sneeze at. There are plenty of roles that are open to you. You should start applying to jobs that interest you.

If you have no other experience you can point to, I'd take one or two of last year's AoC puzzles you solved and write a short write-up on how you solved it. Explain the problem, explain why it's hard (it's a challenge after all), talk about failed attempts (this is important), and talk about how you solved it.

I'd include this with your resume or cover letter.

Remember, the goal is to get to the next stage of the interview process - so you want to give them something to signal you're worth interviewing. AoC (or open source work) gives the interviewer something to ask about.

Re: Advent of Code 2022

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post #6

Advent 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.

As engineers we owe it to ourselves to be honest and accurate. I think calling out GP like this is against the HN commenting guidelines.

Re: Advent of Code 2022

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As engineers we owe it to ourselves to be honest and accurate. I think calling out GP like this is against the HN commenting guidelines.

It's not honesty or accuracy, it's a misunderstanding of the way language works.

Re: Advent of Code 2022

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As engineers we owe it to ourselves to be honest and accurate. I think calling out GP like this is against the HN commenting guidelines.

It's not honesty or accuracy, it's a misunderstanding of the way language works.

What does this have to do with language? I swear, americans see places to push descriptivist nonsense everywhere.

Re: Advent of Code 2022

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As engineers we owe it to ourselves to be honest and accurate. I think calling out GP like this is against the HN commenting guidelines.

It's honestly and accurately based on Advent Calendars.

Re: Advent of Code 2022

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post #9

I'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.

Similar plan. Using this to learn Rust - and hope to make it to day 10 or so, before falling back to my daily driver languages.
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