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Episode: 3996
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Title: HPR3996: Holiday Challenges Series - Ep 1 - Advent of Code
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3996/hpr3996.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:25:31
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3996 from Monday the 27th of November 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Holiday Challenges Series at one event of code.
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It is hosted by Trey and is about four minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, discussing challenges to help you enjoy the holiday season.
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Hello and welcome to Episode 1 of my Holiday Challenges Series.
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This is Trey.
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Since some of the information you are about to hear is time specific, I want to let you
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know that I am recording this near the end of November 2023.
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Whichever holidays you celebrate this time of year, life generally gets busy and stressful.
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It could be shopping, or cooking, or cleaning, or school activities, or buying, assembling,
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wrapping, and delivering gifts, or planning time with family, or dealing with visiting
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family, or scheduling time off from work, or managing extra work while others have scheduled
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their own time off, or a whole plethora of other things this time of year can be stressful.
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A few years ago I discovered a fun activity which challenged my mind and helped me focus
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and detach from the stress for a little while each day through the month of November.
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It helped me manage the stress in an enjoyable way.
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Since then I have found and tried several other similar activities, so I wanted to share
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a little about them with you for the next few episodes, so you can see what might work
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for you.
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So today's episode, we are going to deal with the first of the recommendations I have,
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which is called the Advent of Code Challenge, and there is a URL in the show notes.
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In HPR episodes 2973 and 3744, Daniel Persson shared some great details about this challenge.
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I encourage you to go and review his episodes, but the TLDR, maybe the TLDL too long didn't
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listen for Advent of Code is that it is a 25 day challenge which begins on December 1.
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Once you register at Advent of Code.com, each day you will be presented with a problem
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to solve and some data to use for verification of that your program works.
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You can choose to use any programming language or application you desire to produce the answer.
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Last year I used this to brush up on my Python skills.
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Others use Visual Basic, C and all of its variants, Rust, Go, etc.
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I have seen people use Coball, Fortran, and Pascal, or even Microsoft Excel to solve
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the problems.
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It is really up to you.
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You are then presented a data set which is unique to your logon and against which you
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can run your code.
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When complete, you submit the answer you came up with at the Advent of Code.com website
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and they will tell you if you are correct or not.
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If you are competitive and really good, there is a global leaderboard.
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If you want to compete with a group of friends, you can build your own leaderboard and invite
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others to take part in it.
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If somebody is really adventurous, they might want to create a hacker public radio 2023
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Advent of Code group for people who want to participate.
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That won't be me, but it might be one of you.
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There are tons of resources online from YouTube channels to Reddit.
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There is a link to the Reddit in the show notes to Discord, also a link in the show
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notes.
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So, if you are looking for a way to challenge your mind and detach from holiday stress,
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Advent of Code might be something you might want to try.
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If this is not your cup of tea, I will be sharing several other options for holiday challenges
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in future episodes.
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Bye for now.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio does a work.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, you click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it leads.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the Internet Archive
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and our syncs.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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