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Advent Of Code

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Hello All,

With less than 5 days to kick off, I thought I'd make a post to let you all know that this isnt an unmoderated ghost town, and I will be creating the daily threads as per last year. I am time zone-challenged, so if its late you'll have to be patient and bear with me.

Looks like the leaderboard from last year can be reused, so I think everything is all sorted!

If there is anything I can do to improve on last year, please let me know.

Looking forward to seeing the new challenges and novel solutions!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hoping to complete AoC in real time using Rust this year. Is it possible for new users to join the leaderboard?

[–] CameronDev 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think so, just need this code: 3316962-6587d422

Let me know if that works or not?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

That worked - thanks 😊

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CameronDev 6 points 3 weeks ago

You'll need to login and visit here: https://adventofcode.com/2024/leaderboard/private

Use the code from my other comment or the stickied thread.

[–] Tramort 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Awesome! Glad it's active!

[–] CameronDev 5 points 3 weeks ago

It is a very seasonal community :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I wasn't able to complete last year's AoC as I am 10+ hours ahead and I am a bit daft. Hoping to do this year's AoC in a new language so I can practice. Thinking Zig, Golang or Rust.

[–] bitcrafter 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is the perfect opportunity for me to finally learn COBOL!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I run our AoC channel at work, and also reactivated it this week after a year of inactivity :).

I would love to learn a new language, but I'll probably just do it in Rust again, because I so rarely get to program in Rust :).

[–] CameronDev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How did it work in your work place? Did you get some kind of training budget to spend on the challenges?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Alas, no. We just have a Slack channel, and I think that work generally just slows down a bit in December, so people have a bit of time to work on AoC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yay, it's that time of year again!

Don't know how often I'll be able to compete for time this year, but I'll give it a go.

[–] Reptorian 3 points 3 weeks ago

I guess I can try this again in G'MIC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thx for the heads-up, I kinda forgot. After my hard-mode adventure in Haskell and my woefully under prepared Rust attempts, maybe it's time to pick something safer. I'll probably go with Julia this time around, give it a proper test.