I think a lot of people here would be surprised how much of a step up this is from classic leetcode or DSA stuff. I have been involved in introducing people to AoC and helping them and the amount of people who have basic knowledge of algorithms but struggled to parse the input from a file was a little shocking to me at first. Of course, I do not blame anyone for not knowing something, classic academic courses can be misguided sometimes.
This doesn't negate the fact that there is somewhat of a lack in problems with more outside world interaction and it would be cool to see more of that.
I think a lot of people here would be surprised how much of a step up this is from classic leetcode or DSA stuff. I have been involved in introducing people to AoC and helping them and the amount of people who have basic knowledge of algorithms but struggled to parse the input from a file was a little shocking to me at first. Of course, I do not blame anyone for not knowing something, classic academic courses can be misguided sometimes.
This doesn't negate the fact that there is somewhat of a lack in problems with more outside world interaction and it would be cool to see more of that.