My solutions to Advent of Code. The purpose of this repistory is mainly just for version control.
I signed up for Advent of Code in 2022, the first year Axis was an official sponsor of the event. Local time the puzzles are published 6:00 am.
The first week I could finish the puzzles before it was time to bring the boys to school. Some days I finished the puzzle on the bus on my way to work, or on the lunch break. For many of the later puzzles I needed to spend time in the evening as well... Day 16 was really tough since I had no previous experience with search algorithms, but I managed to solve it with an ugly brute-force solution. Then day 19 was even worse and I ended up saving it for Christmas day. It was the only puzzle I needed to consult the subreddit for to get some hints of of how to speed up my solution. I was happy to be able to solve day 18 and day 24 without using search algorithms. Next year I need to write less buggy code... In the end I had a lof of fun, but I'm not sure if I'll manage to wake up 6:00 am every morning next time.
The solution for each day can be found in a Python script named YYYY/DD.py.
(Using this naming convention (with filenames starting with a digit) the
scripts can't be imported as modules, but they are really just intended to
be run as scripts, and any reusable code would be placed in a separate module.)
Each solution contains asserts for my private input data that you'd need to modify.
template.py contains the skeleton code used as a base for my solutions.
Many solutions just rely on Python's standard library, but there're some third-party libraries that I tend to use as well: