Wishing everyone a fun challenge. This year I will be practicing F# and hope some of you will give it a try too :) https://github.com/neon-sunset/AOC24/blob/master/day1.fsx
With leetcode you’re off in the woods by yourself. Stuck on a problem? Here’s a cold write up. Finished a problem? Do another, monkey.
Then once you do get that context... like LeetCode problems often aren't very inspiring? A lot of the time it's "just apply this technique here".
Whereas in AoC, at least in the first few weeks, it's mostly just, do the task, attack it from first principles.
they have part of the site that has lessons for developers:
https://app.codility.com/programmers/
I haven't used it for a long time, but they also have contests with some small prizes: https://app.codility.com/programmers/challenges/
I’m never gonna do it fast but I enjoy using fparsec to get the input text in whatever format I need each time, even if writing and debugging the parsers sometimes takes up way too much of my time!