Advent of Code 2024 🎄

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On December 1st, Advent Of Code will start again!
You can find all the info on https://adventofcode.com/.

In a nutshell, AOC is a coding challenge that gives 25 puzzles in the form of a Christmas story. Each day, one new puzzle is available. The level of the puzzles increases day by day. On Christmas, the last puzzle is revealed.

It would be fun to see who’s joining and to have a place (maybe a separate topic to avoid spoilers) where people can share their solutions using Dart as their programming language of choice.

You can already try out the puzzles of the previous years to get an idea.
I can also recommend using starter template: GitHub - S-ecki/AdventOfCode-Starter-Dart: A starter project for Advent of Code in the language Dart. Includes automatic input download, parsing, creation of boilerplate and tests.

There is a general leaderboard but you can also create your own.
@spydon already has one with lots of Flutter folks that you can join using 425912-8e09f2ba as invite code.

I’ve also found this “Behind the scenes” talk of how AOC was created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oNOTknRTSU

Hope lots of you will join using Dart! :dart:

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Just to clarify, it’s a requirement to use Dart on this leaderboard. :slight_smile:

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Great share, I was planning to attempt this last year with dart but for some reason didn’t. Definitely gonna give it a shot this time and use dart

Is there a dart discord community or some other platform for this? Ofc we could just post here but wouldn’t want to spam this forum with AOC posts everyday

I have also seen many people visualise solutions in various forms, might be interesting to try doing that using dart/flutter but maybe later on after the 25 days

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Why not? It is dart…

I have not done it before. Looks like there are a lot to be learned from the event.

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Each year I say that this will be the year I complete the entire thing. Maybe this year I’ll actually do it :rofl:

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I feel you so much.
It seems my available time gets thinner and thinner.

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Very recognizable :sweat_smile:
But anyway, let’s give it a shot!
I think it’s fine to spam the forum as long as it stays in this or another dedicated topic :slight_smile:

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Possibly if a 'Category" gets created for Dart and under that a topic for AOC

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@spydon thanks for the info on Bluesky. Clearly I need to check here more! :blush:

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We have an Advent of Code channel on the Blue Fire (Flame) discord, which can be found here:

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I like AoC but I just feel like spending 1-2 (even more) hours for the harder tasks is just way too much haha.

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