Advent of Code in Kotlin: Winners and Community Highlights

Thank you to everyone who participated in Advent of Code 2024 in Kotlin! It was great to see so many of you sharing solutions to algorithmic puzzles and enjoying the holiday coding spirit with experts and the community.

From December 1–12, we hosted livestreams with Kotlin Developer Advocate Sebastian Aigner and fantastic guests who shared tips, strategies, and solutions. If you missed the live action, you can still catch the recordings:

Join the community

The Advent of Code (AoC) puzzles are available year-round, and the Kotlin Slack community is always there, sharing tips and supporting each other.

Join the AoC community

And the winners are…

We invited you all to solve the puzzles using Kotlin, testing your skills and luck by joining our leaderboards and competing for top scores, random draws, and the community spotlight. Now, we’d like to announce and congratulate our 15 winners, who will all be receiving special prizes!

Let’s give a big round of applause to our top five contestants who conquered the combined Kotlin leaderboards, which featured a total of 732 participants:

• Verulean
• Kroppeb
• Koen Oostveen
• AndrejStratmann
• eagely

These five participants, who shared their solutions on GitHub using the aoc-2024-in-kotlin topic, were randomly selected as prize winners:

• pmatysek
• OroshiX
• kingsleyadio
• MarcNME
• jasont20015

Finally, let’s celebrate these five participants, who went above and beyond, sharing their solutions, tips, and guidance with the Advent of Code community on our Slack channel:

• Toldoven for solving Advent of Code using Kotlin Notebook
• Michael de Kaste
• Jakub Gwóźdź
• Dan Fingal-Surma 
• Neil Banman

Congratulations to all our winners and participants! 

Keep learning 

Sharpen your skills and get ready for next year:

• AoC 2024 YouTube playlist
• Kotlin AoC template on GitHub
• Amper AoC template on GitHub
• Solutions to AoC puzzles from previous years, in idiomatic Kotlin
• Tips and tricks for solving AoC puzzles
• The Algorithmic Challenges in Kotlin course

A huge thank-you to Eric Wastl and the Advent of Code team. Let’s keep solving, exploring Kotlin, and having fun together – we hope to see you at the next AoC!