Advent of Code 2020 - Day 3
Day 3 of AoC 2020 (Toboggan Trajectory) is easy enough to solve in any language, but we’re sticking with Python for this. As always, spoilers ahead.
Read more →Day 3 of AoC 2020 (Toboggan Trajectory) is easy enough to solve in any language, but we’re sticking with Python for this. As always, spoilers ahead.
Read more →Day 2 of AoC 2020 (Password Philosophy) is an easy problem to solve in Python. As always, spoilers ahead.
Read more →If you haven’t heard of Advent of Code , it is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles that run every year from December 1st through the 25th. This year, I was happy to have solved the majority of the puzzles on my own, with very little help from the subreddit.
Most of these puzzles can be solved in Python using only the standard library, and for some, it really boils down to parsing the input into a form that’s more suited for processing. Suffice to say, there are a ton of spoilers in this series, so if you want to avoid spoilers, look away now.
Read more →Go has a nice way of importing packages, just use go get
and it automatically appears in your $GOPATH/src
directory. The backing store
can be any supported VCS, but most often is GitHub. This means that your custom
package will be namespaced under github.com/<user>/package
. Wouldn’t it be
nice if you could just namespace it similar to rsc.io/quote
?
While a computer is simply a machine that takes in a series of instructions and executes them in order, most people have a hard time understanding this fact. As Arthur C. Clarke wrote
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
My observations from my own experiences appear to stand as evidence of the above statement.
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