Today I found out about the Advent of Code challenge https://adventofcode.com/. There is a small programming/scripting challenge everyday throughout december.
I worked my way up to today’s challenge which was a pretty fun experience so far.
The challenges so far were about information-parsing from a given data file.
My scripts for solving these tasks are uploaded to https://gitlab.com/t-rkr/advent-of-code-2020 .
A small ad-break: This is also basically what my work as a Theoretical/Computational Chemist is all about. Parsing results from calculations and trying to make (chemical) sense of it all. The slight difference to the AoC challenge is that I myself have to come up with the rules with which I need to gather the data.