Advent of Code 2020: A Challenge Ahead of the Holidays
December 3, 2020
It's important to continually hone your own skills true to being a true profesional. Credit to my colleague David Lozzi for bringing Advent of Code 2020 to my attention, to which I immediately knew I had to partake.
Daily coding challenges are posted while the site interweaves some stats, socialization, and leaderboards. My personal goals:
- Complete all 25 challenges
- Try a new language for at least one challenge
For example, the Day 3 challenge: 'ski' down a grid thousands of lines long and count the number of trees encountered for a specified slope...
Please check out my solutions on GitHub (all JS so far) or follow along. After only three days I've already found it incredible revealing to see how my fellow Slalom colleagues have solved the same problem with different languages, approaches, and personal coding style.
Happy Coding!
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!