Info and problems are available at https://adventofcode.com/2017
Each day's problem input and solution is in a subdirectory, 01, 02, etc.
Solutions are C++. Compile with:
g++ -std=c++17 -Wall -g -o doit doit.cc
Input has sometimes been pre-processed for ease of reading.
Example input if any is called input1.
The real input is input (note, my inputs are no longer included in
the repository).
Input is on stdin, output is printed to stdout. Run part 1 as ./doit 1 < input and part 2 as ./doit 2 < input
Sometimes I might go back and revisit a problem in a different
(usually more efficient) way. Alternatives will be other .cc files
starting with doit.
Here's my list of recommended problems for the year, along with direct links. Recommendations are based on a combination of factors: perhaps the problem admits an unusual and clever solution, or perhaps it would allow an interesting visualization, or perhaps the problem description itself was cute. In whatever way, I found the problem unusually fun. Each of these problems is either ⭐ (recommended) or ⭐⭐ (highly recommended).
- Day 11: Hex Ed ⭐⭐
- Day 14: Disk Defragmentation ⭐
- Day 17: Spinlock ⭐
- Day 20: Particle Swarm ⭐
- Day 23: Coprocessor Conflagration ⭐⭐
