For those participating in Advent of Code this template provides a convenient structure and runner for completing the challenges in Dafny, the software verification programming language. Dafny is still under development and File IO is a bit challenging because it relies on foreign function calls to do IO. Luckily, the Dafny community has provided a libary for Dafny 4.0 that includes simple IO capabilities.
Clone the repository into a new folder per year.
git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:hath995/Dafny-AoC-template.git dafny-aoc-2023
In the command line you should ensure that Dafny is in your path. Download the latest stable release here.
Dafny also requires the .NET runtime which you can download here.
Install the Dafny VS-Code plugin here.
Advent of Code has 25 problems and each problem has two parts. Traditionally, the first part is building up to the more complex second part.
Steps:
- Copy the example input into the problems/<number>/example.txt
- Download the problem input into problems/<number>/input.txt
- Depending on your os, run
aoc.ps1oraoc.shappending the problem number (0-25) and part number (1-2) and -t or --test for using the test input.
./aoc.sh 0 1 --test
./aoc.sh 0 2
.\aoc.ps1 0 1 -t