# Advent of Code: Getting Ready!

**URL:** <https://erlangforums.com/t/advent-of-code-getting-ready/2082>\
**Category:** Coding Challenges\
**Tags:** advent-of-code, advent-of-code-2022\
**Created:** [November 27, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/advent-of-code-getting-ready/2082 "2022-11-27T21:58:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![mafinar](https://erlangforums.com/user_avatar/erlangforums.com/mafinar/32/216_2.png) [@mafinar](https://erlangforums.com/u/mafinar)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/advent-of-code-getting-ready/2082/1 "2022-11-27T21:58:02Z")

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Greetings. It’s that time of the year and [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com) is upon us!

For folks who never played one, here’s what it is, copied straight from [their website](https://adventofcode.com/2022/about) by [Eric Wastl](https://twitter.com/ericwastl):

Advent of Code is an [Advent calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar) of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in [any](https://github.com/search?q=advent+of+code) programming language you like. People use them as [interview](https://y3l2n.com/2018/05/09/interview-prep-advent-of-code/) [prep](https://twitter.com/dznqbit/status/1037607793144938497), [company training](https://twitter.com/pgoultiaev/status/950805811583963137), [university](https://gitlab.com/imhoffman/fa19b4-mat3006/wikis/home) [coursework](https://gribblelab.org/teaching/scicomp2021/index.html), [practice](https://twitter.com/mrdanielklein/status/936267621468483584) [problems](https://comp215.blogs.rice.edu/), a [speed contest](https://adventofcode.com/leaderboard), or to [challenge each other](https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/search?q=flair%3Aupping&restrict_sr=on).

[Here are some](https://erlangforums.com/tag/advent-of-code) advent of code themed posts we had in this forum.

We already have a leader board and the link is: [Leaderboard - Advent of Code 2021](https://adventofcode.com/2021/leaderboard/private/view/370884) and entry code: `370884-a6a71927`

There is a hard limit of 200 members per leaderboard and we are already at 149. In case it fills up we shall create a new one.

See you in 100 hours (Earlier if y’all wanna do warm-ups here!)

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**Author:** ![mafinar](https://erlangforums.com/user_avatar/erlangforums.com/mafinar/32/216_2.png) [@mafinar](https://erlangforums.com/u/mafinar)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/advent-of-code-getting-ready/2082/2 "2022-11-27T22:02:33Z")

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I will be doing some warm-ups and sharing them here. I have been almost exclusive to Elixir (and more recently, F#) to solve problems. However, this year I have slightly different goal, instead of using sequential Elixir, I would like to tackle them with OTP and might try my luck with Erlang and my new favourite: LFE. Here’s an example: [advent\_of\_code/lib/2016/day\_10 at master · code-shoily/advent\_of\_code · GitHub](https://github.com/code-shoily/advent_of_code/tree/master/lib/2016/day_10) I might shave a lot of yaks, and ets and statems in the process 😉

Would love to learn some Erlang from you!