2024 Developer Advent Calendars

#adventofcode #watercooler

Tomorrow is the first of December. It time for the advent calendars. in recent years there been various developer related advent calendars. They calendar may offer code challenges, like the Advent of Code, or be content centered like blog posts.

Code Challenge Advents

Advent of Code

The most well known is the Eric Wastl's Advent of Code it will start dropping daily challenges at midnight EST (UTC-5) on December 1. The puzzles are language agnostic. You can solve them in whatever language you want.

There's usually two brain teasers a day you have to solve the first one to unlock the second. But you don't have to solve December 1 before you open December 2. Coders can jump in at any point to solve a problem. There's a story that join the puzzles together.

There's a leaderboard and a subreddit. People will be blogging their solutions as well. There's a big community that participates, check your community if you want to collaborate or encourage each other.

Advent of Craft

Advent of Craft Daily Katas with a Santa theme.

Advent of Cyber (Try Hack Me)##

Advent of Cyber is a Cyber Security daily challenge. You can learn about cyber security in this challenge. Complete tasks and answer questions to win prizes. For each task you solve, you earn a raffle ticket. Prizes will be announced on January 6th 2025. See their rules ofr more details.

Total Prize Pool Value: $100,000

Advent of CSS

This is the fourth year of Advent of CSS. A daily CSS challenge by Amy Dutton of Compressed.fm podcast.
The challenges are free but Amy offers solution for a small fee of $24 or $39 if you bundle it with her advent of JavaScript.

Advent of JS

Advent of JS. Also from Amy of Compressed FM is Advent of JS. Same type of thing 24 challenges.

I did a few of the Compressed.fm challenges the last two years. They were more involved that I had expected.

Advent JS

JavaScript or TypeScript challenges
Available in English & Spanish
Editor and tests in the same platform

Blog Advents

These don't have a daily challenge but the have daily education in the form of articles or videos. Some even take reader submissions.

C# Advent

The C# advent gives readers two new C# posts everyday. C# Advent This one goes to the 25th and there's already a list of authors.

Festive Tech Calendar

A month long event with multiple videos released each day. Looks like at least three a day. The list is at the bottom of the page.Festive Tech. Plus they are raising money for the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

HTMHELL

Twenty-four blog posts on topics like security, accessibility, UX, and performance.
HTMHELL Advent

Java Advent

The Java Advent features a new Java article everyday.

Perl

Perl Advent 25 Days of Perl Modules.

TypeScript

Type Hero New platform this year.

ArtAdventCalendar Hashtag

On Mastodon people are running a #ArtAdventCalendar hash tag showing what they are making.

How I am Participating

I haven't decided yet. I'll do some code challenges and read some posts but haven't picked one to do every day. Previous years I've over committed myself.

Join the Fun

Do you know of any more developer related advents? Put them in the comments.

Will you be participating in any of these challenges? Find some friends and hold each other accountable. Some of the Challenges have built in discussion boards to support the community.

Want to add to an advent?

Follow the people that built these advent Challenges. Some of these blog advents look for writers. Most are closed now so look for those calls for articles next fall. if you're lucky and anyone has a slot open go for it.

Good luck!