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⌨️ Advent of Code 2024 solutions
This repository contains my solutions to the Advent of Code 2024 challenges. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels.
Challenges
The challenges are designed to be solved in any programming language and cover a wide range of topics, including:
- Parsing and processing text
- Implementing algorithms and data structures
- Simulating simple systems and state machines
- Solving mathematical problems
Each day's challenge is divided into two parts, with the second part typically building upon the first part in some way. The challenges are designed to be approachable for beginners, but also offer a challenge for more experienced programmers.
Recap of the challenges
| Day | Part 01 | Part 02 |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | ✅ | ✅ |
| 02 | ✅ | ✅ |
| 03 | ✅ | ✅ |
| 04 | ✅ | ✅ |
| 05 | ✅ | 😡 |
| 06 | ✅ | ✅ |
Directory structure
Each day of the Advent of Code challenge is organized into its own directory, named dayXX, where XX is the day of the challenge (e.g., day01, day02, etc.). Inside most of the day's directories, you will find the following files:
day01
│ input.txt
├── 01_1
│ ├── main.go
│ └── README.md
└── 02_1
├── main.go
└── README.md
input.txt: The input data provided by the Advent of Code system for the day's challenge.01_1: The directory containing the solution to the 1st part of the day's challenge.-
main.go: The solution to the 1st part of the day's challenge.
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README.md: The instructions of the 1st part of the day's challenge.
02_1: The directory containing the solution to the 2nd part of the day's challenge.-
main.go: The solution to the 2nd part of the day's challenge.
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README.md: The instructions of the 2nd part of the day's challenge.
For the problems that I found very challenging, several attempts were necessary, and there might be some additional directories containing various attempts, such as 01_2 etc.
Running the challenges
I used Go to solve these challenges.
You can navigate in the directory structure and run go run *.go to retrieve the solutions.
Note that each participant gets a different dataset to work on, therefore, the answers of "my" challenges may not be the same as yours. In that case, you'll need to update the input.txt file with your puzzle input.
Disclaimers
Some of these mind twisting challenges may remain unsolved unfortunately.
Some of the answers to these challenges are not optimized, meaning that it might be necessary to let the script run for a long time before getting the answer of the challenge. I tried to focus on solving the challenges in the first place, and then, if time allows me, I can spend time in solving the challenges in a good way. The objective being to take some pleasure in this experience, I really looked for the "excitement rush" of getting the answers right rather than getting the answers beautifully. The objective is to learn things and to have fun after all.
Finally, most of the comments in the code are coming from LLMs which are great tools to write comments and document the code. I use LLMs only to write comments and don't rely on these tools to solve the challenges (with the notable exception of regular expressions).
Contact information
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License
This project and work is licensed under the CC0 license.
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