A humble attempt to solve Advent of Code 2020 problems.
After completing Hacktoberfest for the second time (thanks Dev.to and Digital Ocean!), I was ready for more. I like HackerRank and solving small programming questions, but I have already completed a big chunk of easy questions. Medium ones need more commitment and quite often result in a bad mood and impostor syndrome.
As I found out, that there is Advent of Code, I thought this might be it.
I decided to use Python, because it's "batteries included" and since I don't need third-party libraries, I wouldn't need to deal with venv.
This probably was a bit of a mistake. Scripting nature of the language started dominating my solutions, polluting the code with dirty hacks as the questions got more and more difficult. Starting from day 10 I started struggling with solutions and well-intended clean-codeness quickly disappeared.
- Sophie Alpert, one of the main contributors to React.js, is very high in the leaderboards
- The Primeagen streams his solutions on Twitch and posts his hilarious jokes, like 8 is equal to D to YouTube
- It was funny to see the mighty Uncle Bob struggling with Dynamic Programming
- Jonathan Paulson explained DP, which I couldn't understand by watching Uncle Bob
- Eric Wastl, the inventor of AoC, talking about his experiences behind the scenes