Posts in category #advent-of-code

Every year I in December try to compete in the Advent of Code programming challenge. This category contains write-ups for my attempts when I get to them. For all the other years (six of them already, time flies) you can check out my solutions repository. Each year I try to do a specific challenge, be it getting better at a specific programming language, or getting better at all of them.

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    • 75 minute read

    For the ninth December in a row, I’m playing with Advent of Code. Advent of Code is a series of 50 puzzles published by Eric Wastl, where you try to solve Christmas from some far-fetched horror. Every day from December 1st to December 25th, two puzzles become available, but the second is revealed only after you provide the answer to the first. In this post I will go over how you can solve them, and hopefully some interesting concepts along the way.

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    • 26 minute read

    Yet another year has past, yet another Advent of Code has been bestowed upon us by Eric Wastl. This time Santa has accidentally dropped the keys to his sleigh into the ocean somewhere and with your track record you are just the person to call in such circumstances. If nothing else, at this point you should have been conditioned to not question the logic of keys to a sleigh. Maybe he chains it to a pole for security.

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    • 22 minute read

    Even though most traditional December activities are a bit impractical this year, Eric Wastl returns with his annual Advent of Code. Every day from December first until Christmas Day you get a small puzzle that you can solve by writing small programs or by being very good at solving jigsaw puzzles. If you want to learn a new programming language or just get better at the ones you know, I highly recommend trying it out.

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    Like any year since 2015, when December rolled around my productivity plummeted. It’s time to waste all my hours perfecting a program solving a problem that no one needs solved. Hello Advent of Code 2018. If you haven’t read my previous posts and haven’t heard of Advent of Code before, consider checking them out first. If you just want to see the actual code, you can find it on Github.

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    Two years ago, Eric Wastl announced his Advent of Code: an advent calendar with a different programming challenge every day. During the event, you helped Santa power his snow machine by completing the two tasks for that day.

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    On December 1st, /u/topaz/2078 posted a challenge to /r/programming announcing that he had created a series of small programming challenges, from which he had made an advent calendar of code. Every day from December 1st to December 25th one of those challenges became available on his website for the world to solve.

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