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How is this December starting for you? Have you already got into the Christmas mood? How many of you have started the new Advent of Code? Unfortunately, I am not managing to follow it this year, but I don't exclude the possibility of having a full-immersion during the holidays, who knows! 🎄

Inspired (and simplified) by the Advent of Code, you get bite-sized Docker knowledge every day! From December 1st to 24th, 2024, we'll explore everything containers - from basic concepts to advanced techniques. At the end of the 4 weeks, you will certainly have learned Docker and if you're lucky, you might even win some awesome swag!

December Adventure is an Advent of Code alternative that is meant as a productive, but low key, personal programming challenge. As explained by December Adventure progenitor Eli: “Pick a project, or projects and work on them a little bit every day in December.”

My personal challenge last year was to solve everything on my mobile phone, using LLMs (mostly ChatGPT4 with code interpreter; I didn't paste in the problems, but rather described the code I wanted.)

This year I'm declaring "Advent of Claude"! Write a Claude custom style to solve Advent of Code puzzles within Claude's UI.

Score: # adventofcode.com stars earned in 2 daily conversation turns.

Fine print: web app artifacts are allowed, including paste of your custom input into the artifact UI; one click only.

Per https://adventofcode.com/2024/about, wait until the daily http://adventofcode.com leaderboard is full before submitting LLM-generated solutions!

Of course, feel free to use ChatGPT custom instructions, static prompts, etc.

adventofcode.com is a website created by Eric Wastl where, from December 1st to December 25th, a daily programming puzzle is published. These puzzles can be solved with code, and they range from simple to complex as the days progress. If you enjoy programming, it’s an incredibly fun experience!. For a sneak peak, check out puzzles from previous years here.

It's that time of the year again! Advent of Code is my favorite coding challenge, and I enjoy talking about the problems with friends and coworkers.

The most well known is the Eric Wastl's Advent of Code it will start dropping daily challenges at midnight EST (UTC-5) on December 1. The puzzles are language agnostic. You can solve them in whatever language you want.

As a self-guided alternative, you could try going through https://adventofcode.com/ problems with your language of choice.

I'm working my way through Advent of Code's back catalog. 2018 Day 24 looks fun. Well, part 1 looks fun. I'm dreading whatever search part 2 will likely require. Anyway, AoC problems tend to be written in a style that suggests a way to implement. For example:

Advent of Code taught me a lot. It is a light programming contest that takes place every December and consists of a series of small programming puzzles that can be solved in any programming language. I find it an excellent way to keep my coding skills sharp.

Part one went fairly fast, but spent quite some time on getting part two right. I settled on the approach of just iterating over the grid and using a boolean to see if I had to count elements or not. However, I had some issues figuring out when to swap, this post by /u/rogual helped me figure it out. After that I lost quite some time on an error that only occurred with my input, not with the example input. It turned out that my loop (which I take form my p1 solution) didn't include the start node, which caused all sorts of counting issues.

[Language: Elixir] https://github.com/mathsaey/adventofcode/blob/master/lib/2023/4.ex