Should you participate in Advent of Code this year?

[fernefer]

well this video was randomly recommended to me so I guess I now have to do this

[friendlywavingrobot]

To anyone who hasn't tried it, AoC is incredibly fun. I have a hard time finishing it, but every year that I've tried, I always pick up a new programming trick that I end up using in my day job.

[inzyster]

Last year I got curious about Rust around this time and when AoC started, the youtube bots started suggesting your videos. It’s been fun watching your solutions and getting a feel for what Rust is about. Looking forward to this year’s run :)

[Migmir]

I am working with JS and Python so I will try solve the problems with one of them. I think this is a very good opportunity to practice some not to often used features of languages.

[quimtorra]

This year I convinced some of my work mates to join into a private leaderboard and try AoC. I've done it for 2 years now, but this year we setted on a particular challenge some of us: we have to complete each day with a different programming language. The purpose of it is to have fun ofc, and also to give us some mental flexibility on how to write code no matter how the syntax looks. So far I've done the first 3 days with 3 languages that I never used before and it's suuuper fun (although it consumes more time and energy xd)

[KurtSchwind]

I am primed! Love Advent of Code.
I'm in. You should mention you have a private leaderboard. I'm still in it from last year.

[mistymu]

I don't typically do AoC when they are released and I'll usually go back and try out all the previous years as well. It has definitely helped me come familiar with parsing, made me better at regex, and becoming familiar with the different features of a language. I also tend to favour a more functional approach, where feasible and I'll often refactor my code with the help of tests, trying different solutions and approaches. It is also nice seeing how different people approach the problems in different languages, especially on tougher puzzles. I have also definitely come to appreciate the Set type a lot more as well, it is surprising how useful it is.

[vesk]

This is very cool! I've been planing to do this year's AoC in Rust (I have never written anything in Rust, not even Hello World, lol). Looking forward to your videos!

[jb]

Doing AoC again this year. I started in 2017 and have been faithful to at least give it a big go each December, though I often have many problems that dribble over into the following year. I think I've only finished 3 of the years entirely so far. (I've been half-thinking about one of the unfinished late problems from 2021 for a week or so now as a warm up. 😁)

[ZetaHorzion]

At our uni, our student council's open source group organized get togethers and stuff. Now everyday a bot suggests a new language to code in, and i gotta say, it made me stay on AoC longer than the previous years. And funnily enough, I got me into Rust. I can really recommend this!

[plastikbeau]

I've started my programming journey this year so this would be a great test of my newly accuired skills. Thanks for letting me know about AoC!

[edwinboon]

First year I'm participating. Going for a double first because I want to try it in Go. A language I haven't used before

[Nightwulf]

I do participate in AoC also this year as in most of the years before. I started doing it in Java, then went over to Go. This year, I take a very different approach. Since my C times are over for ages now, I started working in the embedded space more and more (to explore RISC-v in the first place) and thought, I should do it in C this year and not on my desktop PC but a Starfive VisionFive 2 (embedded 4-core RISC-V 64bit machine, comparable to a PI4). I'm of course way slower solving the problems but it's really fun to do.
I fully second, what chris said about "getting tasks done". It is and should be fun. So if you're finishing the last task of AoC 2023 in May 2026, that's totally fine 😉
Thank you chris for the great introductory video about AoC....giving you a thumbs up and a sub!

[ThinkWithGames]

Advent of Code is the highlight of December for me! In the past I went for the leaderboard (and got on it a few times, so I think I'm satisfied), so maybe I'll try to make some visualizations in Godot this time.

[stackercoding]

I discovered AoC 3 years ago and it's now like a ritual for me, I wait for the puzzle every night and give myself at least 1 hour to do it, then if I solved it I go to reddit an see the solution from others, really learned a lot doing this.

[Comradin]

Spoke yesterday with our apprentices about advent of code and they should participate and today I get your video recommendation.

Truly a sign 😂❤

[kevincodes]

This will be my first year, but I do plan to try it this year. Looking forward to your future videos as I'll hopefully use these problems to better understand Rust as well.

[trikynguyen]

i found your channel last year while trying to do AoC with Rust, thanks for all of your work, really appreciate it :D

[tamles]

Advent of code is so great! I enjoy it every year, even if I usually don't have to complete a lot of them. Thank you so much for this!

[a_maxed_out_handle_of__chars]

yeah, will be doing it this year as well :)