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Advent Of Code
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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev! Other challenges are also welcome!
Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
Everybody Codes is another collection of programming puzzles with seasonal events.
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Python. I don't have much fun in that language and I figure maybe doing AoC will help delete the mental barrier of "Python make sad" and also get me to learn more about it, so if it still makes me unhappy at least it won't be an "I have very little understanding of what I am doing" unhappy.
I don't entirely know why, but it's difficult to enjoy programming in python, even if you enjoy the end product. Something about it's design, which usually forces you to do things imperatively or reach for a library, it's position as mainly a glue language, it's philosophy of "there should only be one way to do it". They're practical philosophies, but not very fun
You might have put into a words a suspicion I've had for a long time. I don't know if this is completely the case for me. But yes, Python most of the times doesn't spark joy