Is anyone else Racketing their way through www.adventofcode.com this year? It's worth checking out.
We could even do a "private" leaderboard for Racketeers. Last year's problems (2015) are still available, and the awesome Matthew Butterick wrote up his Racket solutions: https://docs.racket-lang.org/aoc-racket/index.html Benchmarking yourself (all timings are absolute from when the problem is released): * My best effort so far has been 163rd in the world to solve the Day 9 puzzles * Looking through the leaderboard, the 100th person to complete day 2 was the renowned Peter Norvig in 19 minutes and 10 seconds. Fastest time was 5 minutes 49 seconds. * The first really challenging puzzle for me was Day 11, with the 100th person taking 2 hours and 44 minutes, and the fastest an amazing 8 minutes and 40 seconds. I had to get hints, go away and come back, and finally found that I made a transcription error in my initial state. ;-( Other stuff: * Advent of code is fun both for problem-solving and for learning new features of Racket and trying out different idioms * I discovered (in-indexed) yesterday, and have contemplated writing a string-match macro (but keep get interrupted by daily puzzles)! Perl people seem big on Advent activities. Maybe we could do a Racket-specific calendar of activities next year? Dan P.S. Just 21 minutes until Day 13 gets released! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
