12:38:20mdhughesI do like that the AOC challenges test a lot of things you actually do in data processing code. Not everyone will ever write DP, but it's a useful skill.
13:00:14sham1AOC challenges are nice in that they really force one to think about things like the graphs underlying it all
13:00:48wasamasaI dunno, there's like two or three challenges of that kind every year
13:09:13mdhughesI've done a couple AOCs and some of Project Euler, mostly to make myself get better at some language I want to work on. They don't come up all that often.