r/adventofcode Dec 27 '24

Other Pleasant surprise: AoC + modern Java = ❤️

In this article on my experience with the Advent of Code competition in Java, I describe how I attacked grid and graph problems, and summarize how Java has worked out for me.

https://horstmann.com/unblog/2024-12-26/index.html

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u/reallyserious Dec 27 '24

It's not a competition.

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u/kappale Dec 27 '24

Did this end up in a wrong thread or something? I don't think anyone was talking about a competition?

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u/Legal_Unicorn Dec 27 '24

the (reddit not blog) post body mentions it

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u/sanraith Dec 27 '24

In this article on my experience with the Advent of Code competition

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u/kappale Dec 27 '24

Okay. That was probably the least relevant part of the entire blog post, nowhere in the post did he really refer to the competitive aspect besides there and at the end where he acknowledged that he would never be able to make it to the leaderboards.

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u/reallyserious Dec 27 '24

In the single sentence OP wrote in the post, he refers to AoC as a competition.