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Re: Advent of Code 2022 is nigh

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Post by javajosh »

I did several of these last year and found them deeply unpleasant. I like puzzles but some puzzles are just...bad. Like the ones that require you to just brute force a solution, or write lots of detailed code to capture the requirements...that shouldn't be what this is. Just my opinion, of course, but like I said I found last year an unpleasant chore that felt more like work. Hope it's not like that this year.

Re: Advent of Code 2022 is nigh

#7

Post by xyzelement »

javajosh wrote: post #3

I did several of these last year and found them deeply unpleasant. I like puzzles but some puzzles are just...bad. Like the ones that require you to just brute force a solution, or write lots of detailed code to capture the requirements...that shouldn't be what this is. Just my opinion, of course, but like I said I found last year an unpleasant chore that felt more like work. Hope it's not like that this year.

I recently went through the 2021 puzzles and I don't recall having this experience.

I also think the choice of language matters a lot. I did it in prolog a few years ago and it was super concise because you just dealt with pure logic at that point.

I can see it be more verbose in Java :) but seriously I find these puzzles hard but not in a chore kind of way.

Re: Advent of Code 2022 is nigh

#8

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xyzelement wrote: post #7
javajosh wrote: post #3

I did several of these last year and found them deeply unpleasant. I like puzzles but some puzzles are just...bad. Like the ones that require you to just brute force a solution, or write lots of detailed code to capture the requirements...that shouldn't be what this is. Just my opinion, of course, but like I said I found last year an unpleasant chore that felt more like work. Hope it's not like that this year.

I recently went through the 2021 puzzles and I don't recall having this experience. I also think the choice of language matters a lot. I did it in prolog a few years ago and it was super concise because you just dealt with pure logic at that point. I can see it be more verbose in Java :) but seriously I find these puzzles hard but not in a chore kind of way.

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