Looking through the forum there've been threads for Advent of Code starting in 2020.Although the kittens may have other ideas, that finishes this Advent of Code for me.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=293084
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=325236
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=343515
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=360011
and this one
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=380295
For the first three years I switched programming languages every week. The most memorable was a week in Scratch. The last two years I focused on one language that might be useful: In 2023 that was Julia and 2024 Chapel.
Julia and Chapel are both languages designed for numerics and high-performance computing on modern hardware. One could make a case it was useful to learn them better. At the same time, the three black kittens claim to learn more by taking one puzzle and solving it multiple times using different languages and hardware.
To that end I have challenged Scratchy, Purr and Shy to create a parallel solution for day 24 that runs on the super cheap cluster.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=199994
The kittens are difficult to motivate so this may not work out, but I'm hoping.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Wed May 07, 2025 5:18 pm