{"id":17159,"date":"2025-12-25T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:57:34","slug":"holiday-break-with-cody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2025\/12\/25\/holiday-break-with-cody\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Break with Cody"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/678166\">John<\/a>'s pick this week is to\u00a0embrace the holiday spirit with three festive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\">Cody<\/a> problems\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\/problems\/45207\">Calculate days until Christmas<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\/players\/16180031\">David Motson<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\/problems\/45244\">How many Christmas presents under the tree?<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\/players\/10816029\">Miles Walker<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\/problems\/44466\">The twelve days of Christmas<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/cody\/players\/1972666\">David Verrelli<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/merry-christmas2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17156\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/merry-christmas2-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why these picks? As a lot of us break for the holiday season we wanted to combine a coding challenge with some holiday cheer.  Whether you\u2019re counting down the days, tallying gifts, or singing along to a classic carol, these problems will keep your MATLAB skills sharp while spreading joy.<\/p>\r\n<br> <br \/>\r\nYour challenge:\r\n<br \/>\r\nHow many of these can you solve? One? All three? Go ahead\u2014grab a warm drink, fire up Cody, and let the holiday coding begin.\r\n\r\n<br>\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\nHappy Holidays from the Pick of the Week Team","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/merry-christmas2.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><p>John's pick this week is to\u00a0embrace the holiday spirit with three festive Cody problems\r\n\r\n \tCalculate days until Christmas by David Motson\r\n \tHow many Christmas presents under the tree? by Miles... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2025\/12\/25\/holiday-break-with-cody\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":17156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions\/17182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}