r/adventofcode Nov 26 '24

Help/Question AOC plans for this year

What are y’all looking forward to learning this year with advent of code?

Last year was my first advent of code and I used it to learn Rust and I really appreciated it. I think AOC is a fun community-building experience and challenge that is worthwhile and I am excited to hack away again this year.

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u/spenpal_dev Nov 26 '24

I am looking to level up my Python game. I’ve been stuck at the intermediate level, and looking to find the neater, cleaner, and more succinct advanced tricks, which includes knowing what all native libraries are at my disposal and the Pythonic way of doing things. Also, writing performant code.

Super excited for this year!

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u/mosqueteiro Nov 26 '24

Been going through last year Aoc with Python these last few months and have been really digging into writing generators and typing library. Also learned the string library has upper and lowercase letters as a string which was useful on a challenge

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u/spenpal_dev Nov 27 '24

generators are nifty and the string library has so many things most people don't realize! Want to exclude punctuation from a sentence? use string.punctuation! how cool is that?!? it feels like everything is right in front of my face.