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What are you guys "using" the AoC for? Highscore hunting in your most favorite environment? Learning something new, or unusual? 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.
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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?
The puzzles are released each day at the same time - 5am UK time (I think it's midnight Eastern Standard Time but don't hold me to that) - and people race for the first correct answers. Check last year's leaderboards and look how fast people answer: https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard/day/1 You don't have to race, it isn't required, but the people who do race are very very quick off the draw - they have scripts…
Very much looking forward to this year's edition and am on several leaderboards.
I warmly recommend this presentation Eric gave in a conference in Sweden a little while back:
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.
What are you guys "using" the AoC for? Highscore hunting in your most favorite environment? Learning something new, or unusual? 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?
I have done it every year, mostly in Rust or C++, with a smattering of other languages (Factor, SML, Haskell). I think I will go with Racket this year. I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff about the environment I'm working with (for example, one year I used CMake to build, just to get some experience…
> I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff about the environment I'm working with (for example, one year I used CMake to build, just to get some experience with it). Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but this doesn't seem very exceptional. To me this seems to be 100% within the spirit of the project.…
> Getting a star first is worth 100 points, second is 99, and so on down to 1 point at 100th place.
Can a person participate in Advent of Code if they don't celebrate Advent or Christmas? (If so, why use Advent, a Christian liturgical season, as the hook?)
On top, the story that unfolds during December might refer to Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, or elves and reindeer. The programming challenges are open for anyone.