Solutions to Advent of Code puzzles from adventofcode.com.
Advent of Code is a set of programming puzzles made by Eric Wastl released between December 1 and December 25 since 2015. See Advent of Code's about page for more.
This repository contains my personal solutions of these puzzles. The objectives of the code are:
- solve the problem
- understandable code
- efficiency
To run the solutions you need to download the puzzle input first. See section Input below how to do that and where to put it.
Thanks to Eric Wastl for these wonderful programming puzzles. They cover many basic programming problems and are excellent examples to repeat and deepen the knowledge of a programming language.
Details of the daily solutions and the code itself are documented in the respective source files.
This repository does not provide the puzzle inputs itself, because they belong to Advent of Code. To make the input available for the solutions, log into Advent of Code, download the input files and store them in a file per day. As far as I can see the URL scheme to download the input is http://adventofcode.com/<year>/day/<day>/input. This scheme seems to work also for days with single value input provided on the puzzle page itself.
By default the helper class Input expects the daily input files in a folder called input besides this repository. Create a subfolder with the puzzles' year as name in ìnput and store the daily input in files named like day01.txt. For example, the name for day 7 of year 2017 would be input/2017/day07.txt (on Windows with '\' of course).
You may change the folder and the naming scheme of the downloaded input files by adapting the constants at the top of file helpers/puzzleInput.py. If this is not sufficient change the code of Input.__init__() loading the input.
The folder helpers contains some modules useful for all or at least several daily solutions. First of all it contains the module to read the puzzle input and do some simple initial processing. Additionally, there is a module providing special containers which may grow infinitely somehow. More helper modules may follow.
See LICENSE for the license itself and www.gnu.org/licenses/#AGPL or wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License for more info about the license.