Advent of Code 2022

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#1

A reminder that the Advent of Code challenge starts tonight/tomorrow morning (Dec. 1, 2022 at midnight EST (UTC-5)).

For those that don’t know, this is a series of two-part challenges, one per day, that runs from Dec. 1 to Dec. 25 every year. There are no prizes, but it’s a fun way to test and improve your coding skills.

I have posted my project, with solutions, on GitHub. I know that @Thomas_Tempelmann has a Xojo project too, so perhaps he’ll post that link here if it’s still publicly available.

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#2

Here is the conversation from last year, including Thomas’s link.

https://forum.xojo.com/t/fun-challenges-adventofcode/

#3

Yay, I’m game!

I wanted to use Kem’s project this time, but I don’t have a Pro license, so I can only save as binary. Makes little sense to share it on github then. I’ll look into improving mine instead, to make it work more similarly (i.e. smarter) to Ken’s.

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#4

I stayed up past midnight to tackle it right away and finished both parts in 7:26…

… which was good for 2,533rd place.

I guess I don’t have to stay up past midnight anymore. :confused:

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#5

I’ll use Xojo Web this year :sweat_smile:

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(I’ve pixelated the screenshot to avoid spoilers)

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#6

That’s cool, and considerate. But since everyone’s data is different, you don’t have to bother.

#7

Yeah, but where is the fun of having to rewrite the whole solution because you didn’t know what the second part was about? :joy:

Isn’t a problem in the first puzzle… but just in case™

#8

I’ve created a Private Leaderboard if anyone wants to join. I want this to be for members of the community so PM me for the code.

#9

Ah, it turns out that I can invalidate the code if needed, so here it is:

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#10

Joined!

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#11

Sadly, it’s 5am for me in Europe when the next challenge appears. No way to make it ever to the leaderboard with that.

#12

Sleep after. :slight_smile:

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#13

I have the same problem :sweat_smile:

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#14

Alright. I rewrote my own project (which is a binary project, compatible with Real Studio 2012r2 and probably even older versions, up to current Xojo versions) so that each day has its own class (inspired by Kem’s project):

AdventOfCode.rbp

I solved the first day’s challenge in 12 minutes. One more reason not to compete in the open leaderboard :snail: :sweat_smile:

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#15

I’m taking you up on your challenge @Kem_Tekinay and I’m going to use ObjoScript for this.

First challenge done.

Like you, I’m hosting my solutions on GitHub.

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#16

Your code is similar to mine, but I only see part 1.

#17

Day 2 complete. I didn’t stay up for it, but I think I could have made the Leaderboard this time. Oh well.

#18

Ooops. Missed that.

Darn, I’m at work all day and I need to add a sort() method to ObjoScript’s List class to solve part 2 I think. That will take more time than I can spare immediately.

#19

Don’t worry too much about completing the puzzles on the same day, the only rule is to have fun.

The creator of Rockstar Language had to spent a few days implementing arrays, before being able to complete one of the Advent of Code puzzles, in 2019 I think :joy:

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#20

Done.

I added an (inefficient) List.sort() method implementing a bubble sort algorithm. I was then able to complete part 2 :slight_smile:.

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