2024's Geek 'Advent Calendar's Offer Challenges - and a Magnus Carlsen-Signed Chessboard (adventofcode.com) 5
The long-running Advent of Code site just entered its 10th year, with 162,809 people completing both of its Day One puzzles (which involve a hunt for the missing historian of the North Pole).
But its not the only site offering Christmas-themed programming puzzles:
- Hundreds of SQL lovers are trying the daily challenges from the "Advent of SQL" site.
- You can sign up for daily emails with webdev challenges from the Advent of JavaScript and Advent of CSS sites.
- The "Advent of No-Code" site challenges you to build something new every day using no-code tools like AI-powered dev environments or the social coding site Val Town.
- TryHackMe.com is publishing "beginner-friendly, daily gamified cyber security challenges" in an event they're calling the "Advent of Cyber."
- And Norway's biggest chess club (founded by world champion Magnus Carlsen) has even launched a site with daily chess puzzles called — what else? — Advent of Chess. (It promises at the end of the event someone will win a chessboard signed by Magnus Carlsen).
Slander included? (Score:2)
Magnus Carlsen-Signed Chessboard (Score:2)
It is a special chessboard with a built-in butt-plug-cheat-device-detector. Obviously worth its weight in gold.
TryHackMe is actually reasonably good (Score:3)
We used it as one exercise in an IT security course this fall ("select some courses and invest two hours" + some recommendations) and the feedback from the students was pretty positive, with some spending up to 4 hours on it. The courses I looked at were also pretty reasonable.
But note that the free offering is limited. Beyond a certain point you have to pay for the courses.
Oblig... (Score:3)
And don't forget this one [xkcd.com]...
Re: (Score:2)
Or this one [xkcd.com] or this one. [xkcd.com]
Randall apparantly likes advent calendars...