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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.

EC 2025

AoC 2025

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[โ€“] mykl@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The operators have all got ascii names you can type, and the formatter converts them to the symbols. It's a bit odd but really worthwhile, as you get access to the powerful array handling functionality that made solving today's challenges so much more straightforward than in other languages.

[โ€“] urquell@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

It looks quite functional indeed