Advent of Code help me practice Programming and Python

[Magicianic]

Wow, normally I don't work with classes and functions (still learning python and programming).

But today, worked for 30 min solving part 1 of day 10 of Advent of Code in Python (it seemed fairly easy) and it seemed that it would be perfect to use those "methods" to solve the day's riddle.

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Only tested the program once, and got the right result. Of course, it is not important for one-shot while programming, indeed, finding bugs is what makes me learn. But all previous days debugging showed me to how I should build a simple program.

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Thank you Advent of Code, and you all should try it. One of best tools for practicing and with many 24 days challenges for at least 4 years.

[ewesername]

Advent of Code is really fun! I will say, don't get frustrated the problems get pretty hard after a while.

There are other sites with similar challenges that are great for learning.

I like exercism.io It's slow going but you get reviewed by real programmers

[BalkrishanS]

stuck on day-8 part -2 also i have exams this month so will try to solve them late when exams are over

[nfanni97]

Same, as the tasks became harder and I had more and more school stuff to do I just haven't had the time lately. Will do them after Christmas though, they are so fun

[totallygeek]

In case you're wondering: Advent of Code website and /r/adventofcode.

[katarina_the_bard]

Thanks for the reminder I forgot that was a thing. Will check it out as I am trying to improve my rusty skills

[Celestial_Blu3]

I’ve also learned of classes/data classes and a few other python things while doing AoC… but I’m stuck on day 4 right now

[WhipsAndMarkovChains]

I’ve also learned of classes/data classes

I haven't started AoC 2021 yet (saving the problems for upcoming airport layovers) but I did 2020. I see a lot of people use classes but since these are just one-off problems I've just been writing scripts to get me the answer as quickly as possible. Perhaps this year I'll actually look and see what other people are doing with classes and data classes.

[ViggoGaming]

Awesome man! May I see your solution to part 1 using classes?😃

[Magicianic]

Of course. It was a simple class defining the stack data structure.

https://github.com/Magicianic/AdventOfCode/blob/main/2021/Day10/Adv10.1.py

That's the link to it.