December 2019

I didn’t really get a chance to participate today, I had a few last school assignments to finish up and I’m working every day from now until who knows when. I’m already up too late and reading the problem I think it would have taken me a good while to solve. Disappointing but hopefully I can still do some...

Part 1 prompt — Day 2: 1202 Program Alarm — On the way to your gravity assist around the Moon, your ship computer beeps angrily about a “1202 program alarm”. On the radio, an Elf is already explaining how to handle the situation: “Don’t worry, that’s perfectly norma–” The ship computer bursts into flames. You notify the Elves that...

Part 1 prompt: The Elves quickly load you into a spacecraft and prepare to launch. At the first Go / No Go poll, every Elf is Go until the Fuel Counter-Upper. They haven’t determined the amount of fuel required yet. Fuel required to launch a given module is based on its mass. Specifically, to find the fuel required for a module, take...

I hadn’t ever heard of Advent of Code before a couple of days ago, it’s a small programming puzzle each day and sounded pretty fun so I decided I would participate this year. Hopefully I stick with it and if I do I’ll post each day my solution. Basically it’s a speedrun programming competition so my solutions will probably...