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Kotlin - I went with solving it in place ( sort of, I had to replace [ ] with ( ) because of the way I stored the numbers ). My first day attempt of it I tried to do it with binary tree, but I'm just not familiar enough with the subject to do it that way and I failed miserably ( I'm studying the subject now, as I think it will be helpful with future code challenges ). So my next day attempt I figured I'd try solving it in place and everything worked out really well ( solved it yesterday, but wanted today to review my code before submitting it ).

Kotlin - it's probably a bit of a memory hog compared to other solutions, but I didn't want to have to deal with index numbers anymore than I had to.

Kotlin - I didn't finish it until three in the morning and just now got around to cleaning up the code. I really struggled with part 2 ( path finding was one of my least favorite subject in computer science ). Though it probably wouldn't have taken so long if I had just scrapped part 2 when it became a mess, instead of wasting time trying to fix it.

Kotlin solution. I converted them to numbers ( like round brackets would be 1 and -1 ), and then just used the numbers to work with.

I think my solution is a binary search. I originally went with a brute force implementation, but when I started the second part it occurred to me that I could do a binary search that would reduce the number of indexes I had to check the cost of moving to.

On GitHub.

My Scala solution – to be cleaned up.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 18 was pretty straightforward, though it presents some interesting choices in how to represent the data -- choices I'm not sure I made optimally.

My Scala solution.

And I've solved all of the Advent of Code problems so far this year, which is utterly unimportant but still brings me joy.

If you'd enjoy some coding challenges, advent of code (https://adventofcode.com/) is currently going on.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! In Day 17 we got to (sort of) play Tetris. Five different Tetris-like shapes fall into a pit, moved left or right on each step according to the input. The first task is to see how high this stack will grow after 2022 blocks have been dropped in.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 16 was... how to put this?