I’m really bad at competitive programming. 🙄 For today’s #AdventOfCode puzzle, I spent an eternity trying to understand exactly what kind of bG9naWMgY2lyY3VpdAo= the puzzle input describes – I haven’t done that in well over a decade, so I made little progress. I knew right from the start that SSBoYWQgdG8gbG9vayBmb3IgY3ljbGUgbGVuZ3RocyBhbmQgdGhlbiBmaW5kIHRoZSBMQ00K. It just didn’t occur to me to just run my program on cGFydGlhbCBpbnB1dAo= and print those numbers. 🥴 I only did that after over 4 hours (including time to debug my nasty C code) and then, boom, solution …
One thing to note about #AdventOfCode: It is really, really important to inspect your input data.
Your data could be considered part of the puzzle description. By inspecting it, you can find clues and you might find out that you can make certain assumptions.
(I mean, what’s the alternative? There could be a list of allowed assumptions in the textual descriptions, right? That wouldn’t be a lot of fun, I think, as it would give away too much information about the solution. It’s more interesting to find those clues yourself.)
I have been really impressed with the cool visualizations in pygame that @gereleth over on Twitter has been making. #AdventOfCode
So today’s #adventofcode was solved with no programming. Just a bit o maths and wolfram/alpha
Day 3 of #AdventOfCode puzzle 😅
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~22h to go for the 3rd #AdventOfCode puzzle (Day 3) 😅
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🎄 So Christmas begins! 🎄
Last year my girls did these Advent of Christmas things:
This year is no different! 😁
Last year I did the Advent of Code challenge 👨💻 This year will be no different! 🤣 — Starts in 8hrs from now for me.
Who will join me? 🤔 I will be Yarning all my solutions 😅