this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Advent Of Code
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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev!
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.
AoC 2023
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- Keep all content related to advent of code in some way
- If what youre posting relates to a day, put in brackets the year and then day number in front of the post title (e.g. [2023 Day 10])
- When an event is running, keep solutions in the solution megathread to avoid the community getting spammed with posts
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The issue with that and reason why AoC doesnt use that for the leaderboard is they dont have access to the code people write, just the final result
Adding that as an option would mean having something that takes into account differences in base runtimes of code for different languages (e.g. scripting languages taking longer) so that its feasible to code it in anything, and having the ability to execute many different kinds of code which can be a pain to set up (and would mean youre then running arbitrary code unless you sandbox it)
I used that as the way to rank people in !challenges@programming.dev when I was running that and its been on hiatus for awhile due to the effort needed to run it since I havent had time due to building up things in the instance such as !pangora@programming.dev
It could work if self reported but then its easy to cheat
Oh sure, it's only for fun - I was thinking of it more of a way to compare my own solutions to different problems.
I didn't notice there was a challenges community! That's awesome. (Maybe a more casual honor-based version where anybody can submit puzzles would be easier? Creating puzzles sounds like fun!)
Yeah ill be editing it and trying to relaunch it in the new year with a different format