Stuff related to programming.
Background Recently I’ve been learning Rust, which is a programming language that aims to be as fast as C but absolutely memory-safe. It feels like a mix of the best features from many languages, including Python (format! vs. f-strings), Java (iter vs. stream), C (speed), C++ (references), and JavaScript (mutability?). And as I was learning, … Read more
Solving levels 20-25 of the Python Challenge (www.pythonchallenge.com)!
After 25 days of participation in Advent of Code 2023, I finished on the global top 100 leaderboard as #78! 🎉🥳 Reflection The first around 10 days were relatively easy. These questions don’t require very much algorithmic thinking, and therefore, more people participated and my rankings were not very high, with the exception of a … Read more
I made it onto the Advent of Code 2023 global leaderboard! (Barely.)
Yeah, I’m now a contributor to CPython 🙂 I caught an extremely significant bug in CPython that affected the coding experience of each and every Python programmer. The bug was so obvious that I was so surprised that no one already found out! Look: Look at line 904 of the typing.py library. How is it … Read more
In the AoPS classroom (https://artofproblemsolving.com/classroom/room/XXX), when a user joins a room, the server fires a “room-joined” event to the client. The event data contains all the users, but the user session id is also sent. This session id is, in fact, the same as the session id stored in the “aopssid” cookie. Then, if a … Read more
Solving levels 14-19 of the Python Challenge (www.pythonchallenge.com)!
Solving levels 6-13 of the Python Challenge (www.pythonchallenge.com)!
Solving levels 0-5 of the Python Challenge (www.pythonchallenge.com)!
Recently I began training for coding competitions. This requires doing a lot of problems on online judges (OJs) and submitting them. Submitting your code is generally not a hard process. You log in, copy your code, paste it into the submission box, and hit “Submit”. However, since I am bored a programmer who likes to … Read more