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Advent of Code 2023 - Day 05

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Kotlin. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me! Day 5 - If You Give A Seed A Fertilizer Find the problem description HERE.

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Advent of Code 2023 - Day 04

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Kotlin. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me! Day 4 - Scratchcards Find the problem description HERE. The Input - Scratching the Itch Today’s elf friend seems to have a bit of a problem… Which is that his “friends” decided that a big pile of scratchcards would make an appropriate gift.

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Advent of Code 2023 - Day 03

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Kotlin. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me! Day 3 - Gear Ratios Find the problem description HERE. The Input - All The Horsepower And, it looks like we’ve gone right back to “parsing is the puzzle” for today’s Advent of Code.

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Advent of Code 2023 - Day 02

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Kotlin. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me! Day 2 - Cube Conundrum Find the problem description HERE. The Input - Cubist Collection It seems we’ve rounded the corner from yesterday’s “parsing is the puzzle” and now we’re back on more familiar footing.

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Advent of Code 2023 - Day 01

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Kotlin. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me! Day 1 - Trebuchet?! Find the problem description HERE. The Input - Numbers Every Which Way Well, well, well… Here we are again.

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Advent of Code - Getting Started

The weather outside isn’t quite frightful yet, but the most wonderful time of year is fast approaching. That’s right, it’s almost time for Advent of Code! Like prior years, I’ll personally be using this event to learn a new programming language. This year, it’s Kotlin. And, as usual, I’ll be blogging each day’s puzzle, but I thought I’d kick this year off with a brief walkthrough of how (and a bit of why) I set up my own project repository for AoC.

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Advent of Code 2022 - Day 25

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I S encourage you to do so along with me!

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Advent of Code 2022 - Day 23

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!

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Advent of Code 2022 - Day 22

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!

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Advent of Code 2022 - Day 21

It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!

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