Advent of Code Pair-Up: Solve & Share

’Tis the season for puzzles! We’ll work through an Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) challenge together by pairing folks with different experience levels, one more seasoned, one learning, so everyone gets to practice problem-solving, testing, and clean code. After a short kickoff, pairs will tackle a puzzle, then we’ll regroup to compare approaches and trade tips.

We will have pizza and drinks at the event, please bring $2-5 to pitch in.

Join my leaderboard here: https://adventofcode.com/2025/leaderboard/private with the code: 126875-00b1141f

Format

• Quick intro & team formation
• 60–75 min pair programming on an AoC puzzle (we’ll pick a day at the start)
• 20 min show-and-tell: walk through a few solutions, discuss trade-offs
• Optional: speed check / small refactor challenges

Bring

• A laptop with Python installed (any version 3.9+)
• Your favorite editor/IDE (VS Code, PyCharm, etc.)
• Advent of Code account (free) if you want to submit

Who should join
Python users of all levels, newcomers, students, data/ML folks, and seasoned devs. Python is the primary language, but other languages are welcome for the compare-and-contrast segment.