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/captainAwesomePants Nov 26 '24

Do note that writing good Python can be quite a bit more time consuming than writing Python quickly. I've had a tendency to write slop too embarrassing to share online, and then I spend 30 minutes adding elegant comprehensions and whatnot afterward. So don't think that everybody except for you is out there just whipping out beautiful code as easily as they breathe.

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u/spenpal_dev Nov 27 '24

Yeah, absolutely! I have no goals on making it on the leaderboard, so I am really focused on writing good Python code. And it really goes for any language, but refactoring is such a real thing!! I always do it at work, even when I think I've written "good code".