Programming Practice Sites I Like
15 November 2021
I’m not a huge fan of hacker rank and it’s use in our industry. I find
the problems to be boring and repetitive, so I’m listing out some of my
preferred practice sites as a couple of alternatives with more fun and
more interesting problems. I will concede that hacker rank does have
excellent SQL practice though. They are the only ones I found with some
really good problems and a variety in engines. Enough of that though,
let’s jump into some of the ones I like better.
Advent of Code Input Getter
03 December 2020
I wrote a bash function to get my daily Advent of Code input. It
assumes that you are in a directory ending in the pattern year/day,
where year is the year you’re doing the problems. Here’s the code