Hello,

Tomorrow starts the Advent Of Code 2017 [1] which consists in 2x programming 
puzzles per day from the 1st December to the 25th. I created a GitHub 
repository [2] to collect code snippets around the solutions of the Pharo 
community (more details in the README).

I think these programming puzzles are good to:
* Promote Pharo by showing solutions collected in the GitHub repository via 
your pull requests
* Show how cool is the Pharo’s Collection API (last year most of the puzzles 
required heavy usage of data-structures)
* Get a feedback of what could be enhanced in Pharo packages (e.g. if when you 
solve a puzzle you feel like a message is missing in a class or a message has a 
bad name which makes finding it difficult, it could be discussed and a case on 
fog buzz could be opened to solve this during a sprint).

To participate, you just need to follow the README’s instructions (which 
basically says that you have to fork the repository, create a directory to 
store your solutions and create pull requests each time you solved a puzzle).

There is a specific channel on the discord [3] that has been created to chat 
around these puzzles and their solutions.

I hope to see a lot of people playing with us at solving these puzzles. :-)

Cheers,

Julien

Links:
[1]: http://adventofcode.com <http://adventofcode.com/>
[2]: https://github.com/juliendelplanque/AdventOfCode2017WithPharo 
<https://github.com/juliendelplanque/AdventOfCode2017WithPharo>
[3]: https://discord.gg/3QG4YcH <https://discord.gg/3QG4YcH>

PS: There is no obligation to solve 2 puzzles per day. I know everyone is busy 
doing its work but please if you solve these puzzles using Pharo, propose pull 
requests! :-)

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Julien Delplanque
Doctorant à l’Université de Lille 1
http://juliendelplanque.be/phd.html
Equipe Rmod, Inria
Bâtiment B 40, avenue Halley 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
Numéro de téléphone: +333 59 35 86 40

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