The awesome Advent of Code is back for 2022! You can follow along on my github repo or follow on Twitter or Mastodon. Check out my finished Advent of Code solutions here. You can plug in your own puzzle inputs and find your own answers too! This year, I'll be doing my puzzles in React... Continue Reading →
Advent of Code 2021 is here!
Time for my second year into Advent of Code! The first year was fun, you can see all of my challenges, answers, and thoughts here: https://davidlozzi.com/tag/advent-of-code/. If you're new to this, let me share what I shared last year: I found this neat little site, big thank you to Eric Wastl, called the Advent of Code. It... Continue Reading →
Challenge #4 – Taking what’s long and making it short
I'm going to be honest upfront, Challenge 4 of our coding challenge feels, well, less than challenge 3. I thoroughly enjoyed the 3rd challenge, so this was a little bit of a letdown. We went from making a search tool against Star Wars movie scripts to a URL shortener. Right? Not as much fun, but... Continue Reading →
Challenge #3 – These are not the droids we’re looking for.
I'm pretty excited about challenge 3 of our coding challenge. It let me geek out in two ways: Star Wars! We are creating a basic search tool to search the movie scripts. #ThisIsTheWay I've been on a project for the last few years creating an intelligent enterprise search tool for a client. Much of what... Continue Reading →
Challenge #2 – Staying focused with a tomato
Here we go with challenge 2 of our little coding challenge! What's with the tomato? Well, this challenge was to make a pomodoro timer, check this out: Our second challenge gets more tangy! We'll be building a Pomodoro timer. To provide some background, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in... Continue Reading →
Challenge #1 – A Calculator, a RESTful man, and a Springy Boot walk into a bar…
Ha, that's all I got. As I mentioned earlier, I'm going through a fun little coding challenge with my team at Slalom. Our first challenge is to create a calculator. Since I'm learning Spring Boot and specifically creating REST APIs, I get to create this calculator as an API... But first, the requirements, here's what... Continue Reading →
I’ll be Learning Java Spring Boot through a Coding Challenge, join me!
I enjoyed the Advent of Code this past December, a lot, especially since I was doing it with some of my teammates. There were some great lessons learned, and who doesn't love to learn? We were discussing the benefits of a coding challenge like this and decided to think up our own! Our coding challenge... Continue Reading →