advent-of-code-one-liners VS advent-of-code-jq

Today beats yesterday as my fastest solve! Fairly short too, so I'll include my one-line solutions in-line. q[9] contains the input. Here is my updated visual of the Basilisk, which combines all my one-line solutions into a single, disgusting line of code!

Here's today's one-liners! Part 1 on line 40 and Part 2 on line 66.

Day 7 Parts 1 & 2 in a single line of Python (one-liners on lines 60 and 105; multi-line solutions above them).

This visualization shows the number of characters in my one-line solutions for each part of each day. I actually wrote up a small script to automatically count the characters, calculate their percent of the whole, pick a proportional colour on a rainbow gradient, and save the rainbow line in an SVG file so I can easily use that as the snake's fill colour. This way, I can update the visualization each day as soon as I finish coding the solution. (Don't worry, I won't spam the subreddit with them — it's just for my own antics!) The automation script is here, if anyone is interested.

Here's my one-line solution for Day 6, both parts in one, with q[6] as the input file:

A day late to post, but here is my one-line Python solution for both parts of Day 5! q[5] has the input file contents.

I know that title is scary. But just like last year, I'm trying to solve as many days of Advent of Code in a single line of Python as I can. Because of this restriction, I'm using __import__('re') so I can use RegEx in my solutions rather than using the import statement (since that would add an additional line). But this means I have multiple instances that look like __import__('re').findall(r'\d', l) within a single line (as seen here). My question is: what is the impact of this? Is it importing the module every time it is called, or is it considered fully imported after the first call and just referenced in future calls? Is there any other/better way of doing this?

If you just want a series of programming puzzles, check out the Advent of Code[1]

[1] https://adventofcode.com/

This goes against Agile, against what many have only known. You can try it, and see what happens. Try a challenge from AdventOfCode, spend a couple of days working up a plan first. Did you write a cleaner solution? Now extrapolate.

I have used BFS only sporadically to solve problems at work. DFS was usually a simpler or better choice. BFS is, however, an essential tool for Advent of Code puzzles - each year, BFS is sufficient to solve at least a few puzzles. BFS is also a very common algorithm for coding interviews.

I'm staring to be a huge fan of the Advent of Code challenge every beginning of December. Everyday puzzle is a great excuse to talk to people of your company that probably you don't interact much otherwise. And /r/adventofcode subreddit fan-arts and community is fun to follow. I always entered after completing the daily challenge, otherwise it may be a huge spoil :D

Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/)

It's not a programming course per-se, but it's a great resource to master the skill of coding and problem solving.

It's just one part though, it won't teach you anything about architecturing a bigger system.

For anyone currently looking for something that does this for you, may I suggest Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com/ This is the first year I've really had time and space to enjoy it, and enjoy it I have.

Also - this article ends on such a weird note given the message that the rest of it delivers. The author has finally realized how valuable it is to have something that gets them going, regardless of whether or not it ends up being "useful", but then immediately stumbles over the fear of it not lasting and failing to achieve greatness in it and sharply concludes with that sentiment.

Perseverance through intermediate-ness into greatness is irrelevant to enjoyment.

Hanukkah of Data is a series of data-themed puzzles, where you solve puzzles to move your way through a holiday-themed story using a fictional dataset. I think of it as "Advent of Code meets SQL Murder Mystery".

This journey will transform you and challenge your creative and resourceful thinking. You will explore new possibilities with VIM, going beyond what you thought it could do. And as you advance through the Advent Of Code puzzles, you will truly transform yourself if you follow the two scenarios listed below.

I've been making a CLI for advent of code ( https://adventofcode.com/ ) this week: https://github.com/VitamintK/wang-aoc-cli

It's been satisfying!

December started 12 days ago, and for my first year I decided to try the Advent of Code 2023, which is basically 1 programming problem everyday and they get harder and harder each day. I started HARD, I ate problems, day by day, until... day 10; things started getting pretty hard and couldn't do - I think - pretty average difficulty problems.