The Advent of Code - how close am I to the Leaderboard?

When you are not a competitive coder the advent of code is quite a time investment. But I did it! I will show comparative analysis of my repository and others from the leaderboard. Am I getting closer?
I sometimes woke up at 6 am and hoped to be done by 9. What did I learn? Did my coding get better?

Talk given at Python Pizza New Year's Party 2020

Transcript

1. THE ADVENT OF CODE HOW CLOSE AM I TO THE LEADERBOARD?
2. Co-organizer of PyLadies Hamburg Board member of Python Software Verband Art: tiyepyep Past: L3S, New Work, Free Now TEREZA IOFCIU HEAD COACH DATA SCIENCE @NEUEFISCHE
3. AOC DAILY DOSE OF CODING CHALLENGE EVERY DEC 2015 - 2020
4. AOC 2020 MANY START .. FEW FINISH THIS IS NOT CHOCOLATE
5. THE LEADERBOARD TOP 100 WHO FINISH BOTH TASKS
6. MY AOC I DIDN’T TRACK TIME .. BUT I DID START AT 6 AM SOME DAYS… 4 … 6 MINS THEM VS 3 HOURS ME 5 … 5 MINS THEM VS 51 MINS ME 6 … 4 MINS THEM VS 31 MINS ME 8 … 7 MINS THEM VS 1H23 ME 9 … 6 MINS THEM VS 1H ME
7. Some famous tweet
8. 52 HLTK 94 GENGKEV 97 MATTR555 … TEREZAIF …JANJAGUSCH
9. I THOUGHT FASTER CODERS .. WRITE LESS CODE
10. @TEREZAIF
11. I WAS CONVINCED THERE WAS A PATTERN IN THE DIFFICULTY.. LIKE THURSDAYS WERE HARDER.. AND SATURDAYS TOO.. AND IT WAS GETTING HARDER IN GENERAL
12. @TEREZAIF
13. Some famous tweet
14. WHAT DOES THE LEADERBOARD SAY? IS DAY 10 THE SWITCH TO FULL TIME JOB?
15. @TEREZAIF What does the leaderboard say? Is day 10 the switch to full time job?
16. @TEREZAIF Oh but wait
17. FOR WHATEVER REASON.. I ALWAYS FEEL BAD WHEN I WRITE AN IF/ELSE STATEMENT.. I FEEL I SHOULD OPTIMISE
18. @TEREZAIF Cyclomatic complexity .. simpli f ied
19. COMPETITIVE CODERS MUST BE DOING SOME PYTHON MAGIC.. LET’S LOOK AT THE SYNTAX
20. @TEREZAIF I wanted to play around with ALTAIR .. also it seems the one who wrote least code did more imports
21. @TEREZAIF HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/HLTK/ADVENTOFCODE IMPORTS aocd re operator functools collections Itertools .. and .. more_itertools parse sympy.ntheory.modular networkx -> day 16, 21 .. classical bipartite graphs math dataclasses
22. @TEREZAIF WHAT I HAVE LEARNED aocd parse & re & https://pythex.org how do deep copy arrays when to set, dict or list
23. IF IT IS SLOW.. YOU HAVEN’T FOUND THE RIGHT ALGORITHM DON’T BRUTE FORCE THE CODE
24. @TEREZAIF PYTHON NEXT HLTK - day 25 Terezaif - day 25 And pow has a z option?!?!?!
25. THE HIGHLIGHT “MET” THE CREATOR