Advent of Code 2023

AoC describes itself as:

“...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
interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice
problems, a speed contest, or to challenge each other.”

I'm trying it out this year. Its new to me. The way it works is each challenge will reward one star, and there is a part 2 (a twist) for each challenge that awards a second star.

I plan to use a few new languages or approaches to get the most of it. Each of the 25 days will be in a subdirectory of this repo.

UPDATE week 1: I've made 8 solutions with 8 different languages so far, but these are getting harder to do. Not sure if I will be able to continue using unique lanauges for 16 more days, as the puzzles are getting trickier. Some have taken a long time and I'm staying up late. I may have to use someting more familar a couple of times to save time.

UPDATE week 2: Its day 12 and things have gotten a lot more difficult. These are now hard enough that I will need to use some more familar languages to have a chance of finishing this challenge. Maybe if a few softballs come up I can mix in some new languages but the solutions (and Part 2 solutions) are difficult enough. The offical statistics show that I'm not alone. While almost 207,000 people completed Day 1, only about 17,500 completed Day 12.

Standard Solution Layout

• Each day is in a folder, and has a README with Parts 1 and 2 of that day's question, and the output of the program (the solutions)

• Each program is a single source file named solution

• Each program assumes there is a file named input in the same directory as the source code.

• Will utilize the standard library if possible, no external modules or dependencies.

• Outputs will be written to the console, eg)

  Part 1: <answer>
  Part 2: <answer>
  

• Compiled / Interpreted on Windows PC

Day	Language	Source Code
Day 1	Python	solution.py
Day 2	JavaScript	solution.js
Day 3	C	solution.c
Day 4	C++	solution.cpp
Day 5	C#	solution.cs
Day 6	D	solution.d
Day 7	Elixir	solution.exs
Day 8	Pascal	solution.pas
Day 9	TypeScript	solution.ts
Day 10	VB	solution.vb
Day 11	Crystal	solution.cr
Day 12	Ruby	solution.rb
Day 13	Java	solution.java
Day 14	?
Day 15	?
Day 16	?
Day 17	?
Day 18	?
Day 19	?
Day 20	?
Day 21	?
Day 22	?
Day 23	?
Day 24	?