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Well, that was a month. Congrats everyone who has reached the end, and thanks to everyone who has contributed solutions and advice.

Sometime in January I will create a megathread for visualizations. If anyone has any other ideas, happy to hear them, otherwise, take a well earned 11 month rest until next year :D

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I dont think that is cheating, its about learning, and seeking help/inspiration is a valid way to learn. As long as you aren't just using an LLM or copying the code entirely, I think you belong on the leaderboard.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're right. And my library aversion definitely made it harder. I think the day I learned the most was day 19, the towel one. Seemed simple at first but I just couldn't wrap my mind around it, looked at a few solutions and one of the dynamic programming one solutions just blew my mind. Took me an hour or so to just wrap my head around it and then once I understood it I was able to write that abomination I posted from scratch (well, without needing to reference what I studied).

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

where did you see that solution in the lemmy topic?