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0 pointsmacintux5y ago0 comments

But you lose the community aspect. It's interesting to talk about the puzzles during the competition, even if you're not competing.

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jsmeaton5y ago

I just began a shared slack channel with my co-workers, and put the call out for any other interested hobbyists from other departments. We'll collaborate and discuss there, and ignore the public boards.

I found in previous years I gave up a few puzzles in, so I need some community to keep the interest up. But I have zero interest in the competitive aspect.

Jtsummers5y ago

Not Slack, but this is what I did with colleagues last year (I first participated in 2018, got a group in 2019). It was fun, moderately competitive (between myself and one other guy, the rest were just solving problems but he is always competitive, and I like to goad him), and we got to teach some of the young guys at the office things they should've learned in their CS education (but somehow didn't).

will_pseudonym5y ago

> and we got to teach some of the young guys at the office things they should've learned in their CS education (but somehow didn't)

What specific things had they not learned in their CS education/which puzzles utilized them?

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