Advent of Code                                    

                                             2024-11-27                                             

                                              Brendan                                               

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                           Advent of Code is an annual programming event                            

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                                    Its like an advent calendar                                     

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                                      But instead of chocolate                                      

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                                  You can byte into code problems                                   

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                             Each day of advent gives you two problems                              

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                                        You get Gold Stars!                                         

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                                  Part one is the easy enough one                                   

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                               Can brute force it if you really want                                

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                       Once ye got the part one complete the second one opens                       

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                 Brute forcing may take longer than the heat death of the universe                  

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                                     So ye have to get smarter                                      

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                                Plenty of algos to be introduced to                                 

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                  If you find it easy there are many ways to amp up teh difficulty                  

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                               You can compete to complete it fastest                               

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                       (A classmate was in teh worldwide top 1000 last year)                        

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                       There are global and local leaderboards (we have one)                        

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                            You can do it in a new language (I use rust)                            

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                  You can create your own language for it (if ye are that insane)                   

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                                        Some do it in excel                                         

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                                            Or brainfuck                                            

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                                             Or by hand                                             

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        You can add Bad Apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevY4szGgQI) to it (2022 Day         

                                           10, make a TV)                                           

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                           One downside is it hits us right at exam times                           

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                             Another is that the puzzles release at 6am                             

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                          Thankfully all past puzzles are available to do                           

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               So we tend to run a second one in January for those who are interested               

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                                     https://adventofcode.com/                                      

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                  Sign up with yer: [GitHub] [Google] [Twitter] [Reddit] Accounts                   

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                 See Discord (https://discord.skynet.ie) for the daily posts on it.                 

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                   Now get into doing two days worth of puzzles to get ye started                   

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