@derickflorian Just checking in on how the exam(s) went/are going and if you're able to find any time to practice those C skills on #AdventOfCode Also, didn't realize I wasn't following you, so going to address that too ;)
@PHolder thanks for checking back in! How is your advent of code coming? My exam went pretty well, just one for calc. The studying paid off because i actually had a half hour of spare time to check my work!
I took a couple of days off because I also have covid again but started working on my side work project again last night. As long as I can make decent progress on that I will jump back in tomorrow I think!
Have you been keeping up with the advent of code calendar?
@PHolder ok, I will attempt a few more first before looking! Thanks for the props on the test and it sounds like you are really chugging along with all of the code challenges. Do you mostly use Java when coding? I have always wanted to learn some of the Spring framework one day.
@derickflorian In my professional career, I've used C and some basic C++ (no fancy operator overloading or anything) and Java mostly. There have been a couple of "custom" languages, that got me using the predecessor to ANTLR (pccts). And of course XML. Oh and Delphi which is a Pascal version of Visual Basic (which I used for one project). And my first ever paid job was in 6502 assembly.
But yes, these days almost exclusively Java cause I love OOP.
@PHolder Ok, C++ seems cool for that reason. I been to a couple of user group meetings where the presenter took C libraries and wrapped them up in object oriented C++ code, and it made things look a lot cleaner.
I have used Java in a 101 programming class and that it was fun. I also used Kotlin for a while when I did 100 Days of Code. I thought Kotlin had some really interesting concepts.
@derickflorian I saw your post on you great mark on your exam, congrats!
I am doing the problems in #Java every night at midnight as they "release". I have found the all mostly straight forward, until Day 12, where I failed to recognize it was a rehash of something I did in 2021.
I post writeups after every one, but of course I have to spoiler protect them because not everyone goes at my pace.
You can check them out on the #TWiT community: https://www.twit.community/t/advent-of-code-2022/13520 (past years are there too.)