My solutions for the Advent of Code 2022.
I do not participate in this for the leaderboard. I am not into competitive programming and the release of the puzzles at 6 am in my local time does not help things either.
That being said, please do not judge my professional coding style by the code in this repository. I do not put emphasize on readability, much less maintainability here, I just want to solve the puzzles and see how far I get.
The same can be said about the efficiency of the solutions.
As I am writing this, I am using Scala 3 as my language, SBT as my build tool and VS Code as my IDE.
I would be curious to solve the puzzles with either C or C++ in the future to get better at solving coding challenges in a more procedural style, closer to the machine and with more emphasis on performance. I have to admit to myself that I have become quite reliant on Scala's high level of abstraction and the power of it's standard library (most of all the collections).
I follow the standard convention for JVM languages w.r.t. folder and package naming. You will find the implementation of the solutions in src/main/scala/com/streese/aoc/dayXX folders. I test/run the code via tests in src/test/scala/com/streese/aoc/dayXX folders.
The repository contains a small app one can use to set up a given day (the below assumes you have Bloop installed):
$ bloop run aoc -- --help
Set up any given day and optionally download its input. Existing files are kept.
Usage: [options]
-h, --help
-d, --day <d> the day to set up
-f, --files <d> possible values: all,desc,input,test,impl [default: all]
-o, --overwrite overwrite any existing files
-s, --session-file <p> path to the session cookie file [default: ~/.adventofcode.session]
The setup code is heavily inspired by aoc-cli. I just wanted to roll my own in order to customize things a little and also have things more self-contained.