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🧩📘 Solve technical interview problems from Project Euler, Advent of Code, Reddit, and more directly in Visual Studio Code.
https://github.com/michaelfromorg/vscode-puzzles

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🧩📘 Solve technical interview problems from Project Euler, Advent of Code, Reddit, and more directly in Visual Studio Code.

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# vscode-puzzles 🧩🧠





Puzzles allows you to sharpen your coding skills inside of your tailored Visual Studio Code environment and add your own tests.




Solve problems from Reddit's [/r/dailyprogrammer](https://reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/), [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/), [Coding Bat](https://codingbat.com/java), and [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com) in a fully-featured IDE, rather than a `````` (ugh), and write custom test cases, akin to a real job interview... which is the whole point of your practice anyway!



Use Puzzles to **prepare for technical interviews** and start **solving coding problems** like you would in actual interviews today!






See how quickly you can get coding!




    Puzzles demo







_Want to practice LeetCode specifically?_ Check out [this](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LeetCode.vscode-leetcode) extension instead! It should be what you're after... though Puzzles likely can help you as well!



_Like this project?_ Leave a review [here](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=michaelfromyeg.vscode-puzzle) or a star on [GitHub](https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/vscode-puzzle).



## Getting Started



Here's how to build _Puzzles_ into your daily coding practice routine.



1. Download this extension!

2. Create a folder for your solutions



    ```shellscript

    # For example...

    cd ~

    mkdir puzzles

    cd puzzles

    code .

    ```



3. Hit `CTRL + SHIFT + P`, type `puzzles` and select your problem of choice

4. Get to solving!

5. (Optional) Initialize a Git repository in your new folder and publish your work to GitHub!



See this in practice (and code along with me) [here](https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/puzzles)!



## Features



As mentioned, _Puzzles_ currently supports problems from Reddit's [/r/dailyprogrammer](https://reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/), [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/), [Coding Bat](https://codingbat.com/java), and [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com). It fetches a user-specified or random problem for any of those three sites, creates a folder, and stores both a Markdown file with the problem description and creates a `.[py|js|ts|java|cpp]` file for you to begin your solution. For Advent of Code, it also has the ability to fetch your problem input.



An outline of planned features is below!



### Roadmap



Here's my plan for near-future development:



- [x] Support other programming language starters

- [ ] Make starters better. Include unit test templates, for example

- [ ] Support Cracking the Coding Interview problems

- [ ] Create a custom, curated list of coding problems to use for this extension



## Requirements



None required! Note that Puzzles does create folders and files though, so you'll likely want to create a separate workspace on your computer for your work.



## Extension Settings



~~In the future, there will be an option to set your preferred solving language~~. You can "Set Default Language" command.



## Known Issues



~~Currently, the extension is a bit... shaky. There is a plan to stop scraping soon and add a better data source~~. If you experience any issues at all, open an [issue](https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/vscode-puzzle/issues) or reach out via [email](mailto:[email protected]?subject=%5BPuzzles%5D) for support!



## Release Notes



This project was originally being part at Microsoft's VS Code hackathon. It is actively under early development; if you're interested in helping grow this project, please [file a ticket](https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/vscode-puzzle/issues) or [open a pull request](https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/vscode-puzzle/pulls)!



### 1.3.0



New features:



- Advent of Code problem input support; note all session information is stored client-side via the Visual Studio Code `SecretStorage` API

- Many bug fixes and improvements



### 1.2.0



New features:



- Language support for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, and C++

- Advent of Code support

- Fixed Project Euler support

- Upgraded to Node v22



### 1.1.0



New features:



- Documentation overhaul and renaming from `vscode-puzzle` → Puzzles

- Get a random problem from Project Euler, _or_ select a specific problem number ([#13](https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/vscode-puzzle/issues/13))



### 1.0.0



Initial release for Microsoft's VS Code Hack-a-thon, sponsored by MLH.



Supported:



- Problems from Reddit's r/dailyprogrammer, accessed via the Reddit API

- Problems from Project Euler

- Problems from Coding Bat

- The problem statement formatted into a Markdown file

- A pre-generated Python file for your solution