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Advent of Code

A programming competition/adventure taking place in the month of December

Advent of Code is a coding adventure/competition/game that takes place each December. I've joined the game for a few years.

The puzzles start easy and get progressively harder as the month goes on. Each day is divided into two parts. The first part typically introduces the concept and the second part adds a challenge. For instance, part 1 of a challenge last year took a second or two to run on my machine. Part 2 would have taken an estimated 3 months to complete. A few tweaks to the codes dropped that number back down to seconds. (Hooray for python dictionaries!)

The AoC website can be found here [https://adventofcode.com/](https://adventofcode.com/)

Github for 2020: [https://github.com/tyday/AdventOfCode2020](https://github.com/tyday/AdventOfCode2020)

grid of bingo boards
published: 12/6/21 4:04 a.m.

AoC Day 4

I generally want to do visualizations on my advent of code projects, but normally do not have the time. I did my initial programming of Day 4 in python then converted it to JS. It was fairly easy to create the grid and run the visualization once that was done.

I'm left... wanting to improve the page. Add a number call out, add an overlay to each board, etc., etc., but the weekend was full of many projects and there is only so much time. I want to add the page to my website, but I'm a little apprehensive of taking on that much work with so many other things in the pipeline.

Ascii art image of Santa's holiday route
published: 12/3/21 6:06 p.m.

Advent of Code Day 3

Took a bit longer to make it through my AoC problems today. I kept reversing my bits.

Yesterday, I wrote a tiny script to create a daily directory, download and save my problem input to a file in that directory and create a starter.py file. That time savings, probably 30 seconds, makes AoC a little more pleasant to play.

my solution: https://github.com/tyday/AdventofCode2021/tree/main/Day03

best solution I've seen all day: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/r7x4yk/2021_day_3_part_2pygame_oxy_filter/