As the name implies, Day 4 is all about processing passports. You are given the following fields and you'll have to do some verification steps using them: byr (Birth Year) iyr (Issue Year) eyr (Expiration Year) hgt (Height) hcl (Hair Color) ecl (Eye Color) pid (Passport ID) cid (Country ID) !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You […]
I came across an interesting Python Kickstarter recently called A Day in Code: Python – A picture book written in code. I personally don't know the author or their work, but I really like the idea. I am also all about supporting independent content creators. You should go check out this Kickstarter and see if […]
When I read the description for day 3 od the Advent of Code, I thought it was asking me to create some kind of pathfinding algorithm. The idea behind this challenge is to figure out how many trees you will hit while skiing down a grid. You should go check out the description so that […]
This week we welcome Shauna Gordon-McKeon as our PyDev of the Week! Shauna runs her own consulting business, Galaxy Rise Consulting and is a Django enthusiast. She has also spoken at several Python conferences! If this interview isn't enough for you, you can learn more about Shauna over on the Django Girls blog. Let's spend […]
Day 2 of Advent of Code 2020 is about validating passwords. It gives you a series of password policies and passwords and then asks you to determine how many of those passwords are valid. For this challenge, I opted to use no Python libraries and just do text parsing. !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You should […]
I decided to give the Advent of Code challenge a try this year. Advent of Code is a series of challenges that are given once a day. You can solve them in any programming language that you want. Once you have the solution, you enter it on the website to earn points. In this year's […]
