I think a lot of people know this at this point, but I love writing code. To wake myself up in the morning and get my brain running, I normally solve a code puzzle first thing when I get to work.

I normally find these on Project Euler, CodeWars, or HackerRank -- though I'm totally open to suggestions if anybody has a really good alternate resource! I really love the problem-solving nature of these code challenges, and how I can sometimes can come up with really cool out of the box solutions to them. I do feel like they help me become a stronger programmer, and an added bonus is that if I am interviewing at the time a lot of interview questions are similar to these (for better or for worse).

Since I'm already doing these every day, I thought it would be really cool to share my results on social media to keep me accountable and to see how other people solve the same problem. I normally solve these challenges in Python or JavaScript, but other people have been posting in Ruby, Rust, Ramda, and Clojure so far (which is so cool to see!). Some of them I have solved before at some point, so I post multiple answers in different languages or my refactors!

If you would like to follow along and post your own solutions (or just see other people's), follow me on Twitter or I've been using the hashtag #CodingPuzzle on them, so you could follow there instead! I normally post in between 8 and 9 AM EST since that is normally when I get to work! It's also led to some interesting discussions on efficiency and the strengths of different programming languages for solving these types of problems! These problems are also a variety of difficulties, so if one day's problem is too hard, still follow the next day for a new one!

To get started, today's problem was Project Euler Problem 2: Even Fibonacci Numbers: Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. Find the sum of the even-valued terms. Please post your answer here!

If you want to catch up on the previous ones, they were:

Hope to see your answers!