Posts Tagged “advent-of-code”

Advent of Code is a programming competition ran by Eric Wastl every year since 2015.

• Programming Practice Sites I Like 15 November 2021
  • advent-of-code
  • competition
  • programming

  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
  • advent-of-code
  • automation
  • bash
  • linux
  • tutorial

  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