https://github.com/jeantessier/advent-of-code-2024

Advent of Code 2023 Challenge
https://github.com/jeantessier/advent-of-code-2024

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Advent of Code 2023 Challenge

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jeantessier/advent-of-code-2024
• Owner: jeantessier
• Created: 2024-12-02T03:08:02.000Z (21 days ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-09T16:06:30.000Z (13 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-09T17:20:18.343Z (13 days ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 65.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Advent of Code 2024

See [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/2024/) for details.

It reminds me of the

[Lego advent calendar](https://www.lego.com/en-us/holiday-gifts/advent-calendars)

where each model is a tiny investment in time to build it.  I look at Advent of

Code as a similar low-investment opportunity to practice some coding on puzzles

that can be interesting without having tons of gotchas.

### Why Ruby?

I'm doing them in **Ruby** because while I'm not an expert, I know it well

enough and I could use some more practice.

I'm more knowledgeable in **Java**, but it takes more work to get anything done

in Java.  I feel my knowledge of **Python** is not quite strong enough; I would

spend even more time looking things in the language.  I could have tried

**JavaScript**, but I feel Ruby is a little better at parsing text than JS.

I could have tried **Groovy**, but it's been a while since I've coded in Groovy

and it has been losing popularity lately.  I feel that's unfortunate.

### Why Are There No Tests?!?

I just tinker on these late in the evening.  For these, I care more about coming

up with a solution that I find elegant than adhering to strict engineering

discipline.  I try to keep the code "simple", so each solution is a single

script that operates on an input text files and writes to stdout.