It's December again, which means Advent of Code starts again. Advent of Code is "an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.". My teacher thought it would be nice if me and my classmates would solve problems as well, providing it has to be done in C++ (we are even getting points for solving them!). I'm curious whether other Cemetech members are trying these puzzles as well!

Here are my solutions located: https://github.com/PeterTillema/AoE2018

I'll probably not bother when they get more difficult, but at least this first one is easy enough that it's a fun bite-size exercise.
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Day 2 was even easier than Day 1:

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I'm solving each problem with Jelly for some reason, with the input file supplied on stdin. Solutions are timed with pypy.

Day 1 Part 1 (7 bytes, .4s):
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Day 1 Part 2 (18 bytes, 8m18s):
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Day 2 Part 1 (16 bytes, .25s):
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Day 2 Part 2 (19 bytes, .9s):
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Day 3 Part 1 (55 bytes, 5m15s):
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Day 3 Part 2 (46 bytes, [broken?]):
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Day 4 Part 1 (84 bytes, 1.8s):
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Day 4 Part 2 (84 bytes, 1.8s):
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Day 5 Part 1 (11 bytes, 21s):
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Day 5 Part 2 (21 bytes, ∞d):
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Day 5 Part 2 (22 bytes, 19m30s):
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Day 7 Part 1 (39 bytes, .4s):
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Day 10 Part 1 (67 bytes, 41s):
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Day 10 Part 2 (51 bytes, 43s):
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Day 11 Part 1 (31 bytes, 3.3s):
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Day 11 Part 2 (38 bytes, 5m15):
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Day 12 Part 1 (43 bytes, .3s):
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Day 12 Part 2 (47 bytes, ∞y):
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Day 12 Part 2 (71 bytes, .35s):
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Day 12 with number of iterations as input (43 bytes):
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So, apparently the contest is over, and I'm happy to say that I finished all the challenges! A few were incredible hard and I have to admit that https://reddit.com/r/adventofcode was my favourite place to be this month I took a few ideas from Reddit and implemented, and once copied some C++ code and modified it a bit (because part b was too hard). Many puzzles were fun! I really enjoyed the Mine Cart challenge (13), and the Beverage Bandits (15) was nice as well. You can take a look at my solutions here, but please don't laugh at my horrible code

All the challenges started at 6AM for me, so I didn't get on the leaderboard, but it was still fun solving these puzzles!

It's AoC 2020 time!

Moved my Jelly solutions to Jelly 2020.

I'm in! Anyone want to join the Cemetech private leaderboard? Join with code 387241-7e26eb8c

I've been doing this year's in Rust, and recently got around to making a repo for it: https://github.com/commandblockguy/aoc2020

It's that time of the year again (although I probably should have said something prior to the first day, whoops). You can still join the leaderboard with the code above, if you want to participate.

This year, I'm doing it in Python, and trying for speed. I've made a project template + helper module that uses advent-of-code-data to automatically download my input file and submit the result of my code. It also checks my solution function against the example problem, and runs it on the actual input file only if it succeeds. In the future I may also try to get it to automatically scrape the example problem and expected solution from the webpage.

_appears from the internet grave as is tradition at this point_ we've been doing it in z80 assembly this year because its been ages since we've actually written any z80. feels good to be writing it again, and felt like a reasonable reason to poke in and say hi here again

repo for the year is at https://github.com/faithanalog/adventofcode2021

we're kinda "cheating" by not including the raw input data to parse on the calculator, just using some vim macros to modify it into something that's basically the same data but takes up less memory. because otherwise we'd have to like compress the data and then decompress it at launch so it'd fit in a ti83 program and thats just a pain