Why YOU Should Do Advent of Code

Huge Advent of Code fan. If you haven't already started doing them, I can't recommend it highly enough. Leetcode has never been something I liked, this is different.

S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[computerfan]

I liked Advent of Code and I used it to sharpen up my F# skills, but it just feels so much harder this year. It takes hours per problem and I don't want to spend most of my free time in the evening on AoC. I heard they made it harder to stop AI from spoiling the leaderboards... Let's hope next year is better

[raynmoderosling]

It always amazes me that you post content every day. Every time I go to YouTube, there’s a new video from Theo. On a stable basis

[ccj]

It’s cool you made this video because this is my first year trying it. I wanted to see how I could improve my understanding of Rust, and I got all the way to Day 5. Day 5 has taken me out though, I think I’ll come back to it later.

[cpplain]

Doing AoC this year because of mentions by you, Prime, and Teej. Thank you. Also appreciate your balanced view of LeetCode style problems. Maybe LeetCode is taken too seriously by some but others are too quick to dismiss the benefits.

[DavisonIncorp]

I had a look at the first problem and man I have NOT had enough coffee today yet for this...

[julian_center]

YES. Plus the website's UI is just feels like i'm right at home inside my terminal :D

[kr]

I started on Dec 1st with no knowledge about Golang and it's been a blast to learn it and solve the challenges every day! It's the best way to learn a new language!

[davidh.]

I'm on day 7 of this year. Day 5 was the only one that I got stuck on and had to see how others did it. First you doing AOC and I love it. Will probably go back and do older years too.

[lavendercode]

Thanks Theo for making this video. Your content is extremely valuable. Going to check out Advent of Code. 😀

[dwolrdcojp]

I enjoy these type of problems but I end up getting too obsessed with solving them. It’s hard to step away even when life is knocking on the door.

[BobGoldfield]

“Had to use bun to run it fast enough” day 5 part 2 moment lol

[varshneydevansh]

It's kinda like the Google FooBar challenge I only did the level one but now considering completing it.

[aleksd]

Been doing it with Elixir, learning it that way. Previously I had huge experience with JS/TS

[soulninjadev]

agreed

i used it to learn programming languages, but usually give up after day 8-10, it gets too hard after that

[reed]

I've done some advent this year and i love it. Yesterday's took me 4 hours to beat part1 fail part 2 lol. I figured out a solve for the 'inside the pipe' aspect of part2, but not implementing it.

[hamzaabamboo]

It's incredible difficult towards 15th day

[GustavoDiaz]

For me it’s the exact same opposite hahaha I dislike reading and reading to know what the problem want me to solve, I like LeetCode because it gets to the straight to the point “given this input, we want this output and here are the constraints” that’s it. But, I get your point, so to sum up do what you like the most.

[Wielorybkek]

advent of code is 90% parsing text... it really pisses me off when I know how to solve the problem but I have to spend time transforming a text file into something usable like objects, lists, etc.

[ThienNguyen-doeo]

I also make AoC another chance to learn neovim also, that’s a huge difference

[ZsoltDobai]

This my first year doing AoC, I hate and love it at the same time. I really think making sure I solved each problem daily actually changed something in me in a weird way. Worked on something with a low to medium level of complexity at work today. I literally approached it like an AoC problem, what do I have to do? if i do this way will it bite me in the ass if some aspect becomes more complicated? Started hacking away with way more confidence in what I was doing.