Hi all,

Advent of Code is an annual programming challenge that runs from 1st to 25th December each year where each day a new puzzle is published for you to solve. The puzzles ramp up in difficulty during the month and can test your familiarity with core computer science principles and algorithms.

As the title says, I'm currently going through my entries to last year's challenge and rewriting them to run easily in DartPad. I'll be posting one a day until 25th November to the Advent of Code community, so if you're interested in seeing how they all turn out, please follow the link above and subscribe.

Cheers, Michael

Hey, all. I've gone through tutorial after tutorial of many languages hoping to learn to code. I always step away for one reason or another or I just get confused and give up. I'm tired of the normal beginner tutorials that go over variables, control flow, etc...

Learning to code is one of those things I've always wanted to do but just haven't been able to do it.

What would you all, as more experienced coders, like iif you were starting out again?

Dart specifically, I'm interested in flutter and dart as a stand alone language.

I know people say just build a project but I don't even know what kind of project to build...

Any tips would be great. I just REALLY don't want another bland video recommendation.

Just in case you want to do something like that.

It uses the output of your GDPR data request which returns your complete posting and commenting history rather than the last 1000 comments that the web interface exposes.

It uses Puppeteer to remotely control a Chrome browser.

Have fun!

I've been using the new pattern matching from Dart 3 a lot since the release, and I want to share how much better the experience of writing Dart became for me. I completely replaced Freezed with Dart sealed classes, and they're joyful to use too!

I love Dart!

I was recently looking into Dart CLI tools and script managers and found a few interesting options. These can really impact productivity and ease of use.

I have personally used Derry to replace some long commands to generate native libs etc. There are other options like Slidy, but haven't used them.