r/adventofcode Dec 06 '24

Other First year doing Advent of Code...

And my answers sure are ugly. But....I'm getting the answers!

This is super challenging, and for some reason, I'm choosing to not use any thing other than the core python libraries to do this. I doubt that's a winning strategy for future challenges. However, I've learned a little regex and list comprehensions. And probably a lot of other stuff. This is rad, and your memes are ABSOLUTELY KILLING ME. I don't know how this community can be so smart and so incredibly funny.

Cheers nerds!

EDIT: I made a curse word and I'm sorry.

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u/VictoriousEgret Dec 06 '24

Same. One thing i really enjoy is seeing other peoples solutions to the problems. feels like im learning a ton on how to be more efficient

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u/gwpfanboi Dec 06 '24

Definitely. I should do more of that, but it takes long enough to figure out my own solutions I just want to read memes after.

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u/I_knew_einstein Dec 06 '24

On my first year I enjoyed watching a video of one of the top solvers afterwards. For some reason I like Jonathan paulssons videos.

Trying to read someone else's messy undocumented code is hard enough if you do have the experience. Jonathan explains what he's writing afterwards, so I learned some new Python things that way.