It's that time of the year again. This repo is for the https://adventofcode.com code challenge of 2024.
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. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
The elve will always give use two parts for each day's puzzle. The first part is usually a simple puzzle, and the second part is usually a more complex puzzle. The second part is usually a continuation of the first part.
Anticipate the second part, and write your code in a way that makes it easy to extend it to the second part.
Just like the real dev work, ...oh... wait... this is supposed to be a game...
if you do not have poetry package manager installed, you can install it with:
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
poetry install
make
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!