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Neil Vass

Time to think about ! A 2-part coding puzzle every day until Xmas.

Might this be the year I get anywhere near collecting all 50 stars? ⭐⭐

If you're interested, have a look at some previous puzzles, pick a programming language, join in!

adventofcode.com

adventofcode.comAdvent of Code 2024

Important prep: review previous years' excuses, vow to avoid them

Those excuses in full:

- I changed to an M1 Mac, so new nothing worked on it, took ages to set up (1st world problems right)

- just as the challenges hit some fiendish puzzle that needed ancient Chinese maths theorems

- just as work got super busy

- oh had builders in too!

("vow to avoid them" is an effective risk management strategy, right?)

Nice clear guide to getting VS Code set up for Python development:
code.visualstudio.com/docs/pyt

IT'S READY

@neil_vass also adding for myself vow to avoid breaking the promise to myself to pick back up and continue through the year...

@manishlad NICE, that's a good one!

I'm tempted to look at the ones I didn't finish last year, but I spent hours trying to work out some 3D transformations thing and was getting nowhere near cracking it.

Not sure I should dig out my notes and start on that one again...