Dec 2, 2025 · 3 min read · It's that time of year again! For developers, December isn't just about hot cocoa and holiday lights; it’s about Advent of Code (AoC), the annual series of festive programming puzzles that challenge our logic, coding skills, and sometimes, our sanity...
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Dec 12, 2023 · 3 min read · As ThePrimeagen has mentioned many times in his videos, Advent of Code is a great way to learn a new language. The questions touch on the core concepts (file handling, loops etc.). Solving these challenges allows you to get familiar with these concep...
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Dec 9, 2023 · 2 min read · I thought about this recently. It does not matter whether you are smart or not. Indeed it helps, but the actual success does not require you to be smart. 1) Showing up every day is worth more Being consistent and accumulating work will bear fruit - g...
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Jun 19, 2023 · 7 min read · Prologue Embarking on the #100DaysOfCodeChallenge has been an incredible experience so far. Every day brings new learning opportunities, and I'm thrilled to share my journey with you. Today, I'll be diving into days 2-17 of my challenge, where I tack...
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Jun 9, 2023 · 6 min read · TL;DR Today I learned a few from the first-day challenge of Advent of Code 2022. Summary: File I/O in Rust String Manipulation Parsing a.k.a. Explicit Casting Some Iterators. The Challenge Canonical URL: Challenge Day 1 There are 2 challenges, ...
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Feb 15, 2023 · 5 min read · Hi there ! I'm Xavier Jouvenot and today we are going to take a look at the first Advent Of Code puzzle of the year 🎄 (if you are from the future, you can not that the current year is 2022 😉). For this first "Advent Of Code" post of the year, we ar...
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Jan 12, 2023 · 16 min read · Day 7 finds us still working with that pesky communication device. For today's task, though, all that we have to do is to analyze its filesystem. No worries, right? Let's see! Can pattern matching come to the rescue? The Repository All of the code fo...
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Jan 6, 2023 · 26 min read · Day 6 is a fun one. The task itself is very simple, but I took it as an opportunity to do some performance benchmarking and explore some of the nuances around how implementation affects performance. Read on for more details! The Repository All of the...
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Jan 2, 2023 · 27 min read · Day 5's challenge was interesting less for the challenge itself, which can be implemented in a handful of lines, even in Rust, but rather for the mandatory precursor to all Advent of Code challenges -- the input data parsing. Today's input data is mo...
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Dec 28, 2022 · 20 min read · Day 4 takes an interesting turn with our Rust solutions. They are taking another shift towards architectural parity with the Ruby and Crystal solutions. Rust isn't object-oriented in the same way that those two languages are, but it does have object-...
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