A handy template repository to hold your Advent of Code solutions in Go (golang).
Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com) is a yearly series of programming questions based on the Advent Calendar. For each day leading up to christmas, there is one question released, and from the second it is released, there is a timer running and a leaderboard showing who solved it first.
- Structured questions into
<year>/<day>
- Auto-download questions into
<year>/<day>/README.md
- Auto-download example input into
<year>/<day>/input-example.txt
- With env variable
AOC_SESSION
set:- Auto-download part 2 of questions into
<year>/<day>/README.md
- Auto-download user input into
<year>/<day>/input-user.md
- Auto-download part 2 of questions into
- When you save
code.go
, it will execute yourrun
function 4 times:- Input
input-example.txt
andpart2=false
- Input
input-example.txt
andpart2=true
- Input
input-user.txt
andpart2=false
- Input
input-user.txt
andpart2=true
- and, will show the results and timing of each
- Input
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Click "Use this template" above to fork it into your account
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Setup repo, either locally or in codespaces
- Locally
- Install Go from https://go.dev/dl/ or from brew, etc
- Git clone your fork
- Open in VS Code, and install the Go extension
- Codespaces
- Click "Open in Codespaces"
- Locally
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Open a terminal and
./run.sh <year> <day>
:./run.sh 2022 1 [run.sh] created ./2022/01 [run.sh] created ./2022/01/code.go Created file README.md Created file input-example.txt run(part1, input-example) returned in 616µs => 42
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Update
./2022/01/code.go
toreturn 43
instead you should seefile changed code.go run(part1, input-example) returned in 34µs => 43
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The question is downloadded to
README.md
, iterate oncode.go
until you get the answer -
Login to https://adventofcode.com and submit
Optionally, you can set export AOC_SESSION=<session>
to your adventofcode.com session
cookie. That is:
- Login with your browser
- Open developer tools > Application/Storage > Cookies
- Retrieve the contents of
session
- Export it as
AOC_SESSION
With your session, puzzler
will download your user-specifc input-user.txt
and also update README.md
with part 2 of the question once you've completed part 1.
Current, your session is NOT used to submit your answer. You still need to login to https://adventofcode.com to submit.