Advent Of Code - 25 challenges for December

[madknight3]

Check out Advent Of Code if you're interested in getting a daily coding challenge from December 1st to December 25th. Found out about this here and thought it looked fun. It pairs great with the other advent calendars out there that provide you with food/beverage!

 

The first problem is available and is simple enough for beginners. Any programming language is allowed.

 

Feel free to use this thread to discuss the problems, ask for help, show off your solutions, etc.

[Kherm]

An Advent calendar for coding. Now that's original. 

[trag1c]

This is actually pretty awesome. I've been teaching C++ to a high school robotics team so this actually might be an interesting way to get them to practice problem solving with C++.

[fizzlesticks]

Can't tell if I'm horrible and don't understand the first question or the submission checker is broken.

 

edit: nevermind...don't use notepad for pasting the input.

[rmac52]

That was pretty fun I did the two challenges for today

[007agentHP]

the second part is a little frustrating but the first part is easy

[prolemur]

Coolio, I hope to help santa get his white christmas!

[rmac52]

It would be interesting to see how people solve these.  Maybe tomorrow people can start adding in there methodology on how they solved them.  

[Wtalk2]

Just finished the first challenge in Python. Only took 3 lines of code LOL. Thanks for sharing this though, great thing to do in your spare time daily and to put onto your Github portfolio.

[RelentlessAF]

Welp I can't even solve the first challenge. No idea how to successively count characters.

[trag1c]

I solved these a while ago but I was playing around with more methods of solving them in C++ and it seems that console isn't capable of taking a 7000 character input. At least I think its the console that's the limitation.

[trag1c]

Welp I can't even solve the first challenge. No idea how to successively count characters.

 

a little pseudo code

for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); ++i){   if (text[i] == "(")   {      ++UpCount;   }   else   {      ++downCount;   }}return upCount - downCount;

[madknight3]

I solved these a while ago but I was playing around with more methods of solving them in C++ and it seems that console isn't capable of taking a 7000 character input. At least I think its the console that's the limitation.

 

Luckily for us programmers we don't have to use the command line input for everything.

 

a little pseudo code

 

-snip-

 

Note you can keep track of everything in one variable instead of two.

[trag1c]

Luckily for us programmers we don't have to use the command line input for everything.

 

 

Note you can keep track of everything in one variable instead of two.

Luckily we can

 

I know. I just wanted to keep it very self explanatory so that I don't make him any more confused that he already is  

[madknight3]

Just finished the first challenge in Python. Only took 3 lines of code LOL. Thanks for sharing this though, great thing to do in your spare time daily and to put onto your Github portfolio.

 

3? Sure you can't do it in 1 with Python?

[fizzlesticks]

3? Sure you can't do it in 1 with Python?

It goes over the suggested character limit for a single line by a few chars...but I think it's ok.

 

 

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[prolemur]

I used two variables to hold the up and down floors because perl

[Nineshadow]

Well, it's really easy

At least compared to the usual problems I have to solve.

[Nineshadow]

I solved these a while ago but I was playing around with more methods of solving them in C++ and it seems that console isn't capable of taking a 7000 character input. At least I think its the console that's the limitation.

Use std::fstream. It's better for problems like these.

The first part of the first problem can  be solved like this :

ifstream in("santa.in");int k = 0;char c;while( in >> c )k += ( c=='(' ) ? 1 : -1;cout << k;

[espurritado]

cool thing, I've done day 1 in ten minutes though, let's hope it gets more difficult

[madknight3]

Well, it's really easy

At least compared to the usual problems I have to solve.

 

cool thing, I've done day 1 in ten minutes though, let's hope it gets more difficult

 

 

I expect it will get harder. In the about section it says

 

 Advent of Code is a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels.

 

 

Day 2 is slightly harder than day 1, but it's still at a beginner level.

[prolemur]

I like that they're easy / short problems since I'm going to be doing this everyday and I don't think the intention is for this to become a time-sink.

[Nineshadow]

The new problem is fairly quick to solve.

[prolemur]

The new problem is fairly quick to solve.

Appears so, I'm doing dumb school work now, but I hope to do it by the end of the day... gotta keep a github commit spree going for this challenge

[madknight3]

The new problem is fairly quick to solve.

 

I thought I had it solved, then I got a stack overflow