This repository contains my code solutions for the Advent Of Code challenges [http://www.adventofcode.com].
I don't claim these are the best or most efficient solutions, but I do like some of them :)
If you download the repository to give it a go yourself, you will need to have composer installed
[http://getcomposer.org] and run composer install within the 2015-PHP-TDD directory to download and install PHPSpec, which I
use for the tests.
Tests can be found in 2015-PHP-TDD/spec/, solutions in 2015-PHP-TDD/src/, my puzzle inputs in 2015-PHP-TDD/res/ and run files to get each
solution in 2015-PHP-TDD/run/.
To run all the tests (some are pretty slow because of inefficient code), run bin/phpspec run on the command line in
the 2015-PHP-TDD directory. You also just run the tests for a certain day with, eg, bin/phpspec run spec/Day7
I'm going to attempt the 2016 challenges in Clojure, a language I know a very small amount of but really like and would like to get better at. You will need to have Leiningen installed [http://leiningen.org/] if you want to run them yourself.
To get started, change to the 2016-Clojure directory and run
$ lein deps
This will download the project dependencies. To run the code for a particular day, run
$ lein run d ...args
...substituting the day number for d. For example, day 1 takes the input as a file name with the instructions:
$ lein run 1 "resources/day1"
Right, no more excuses - it's about time I learned Python. This ended up being the first year I completed all 50 stars
- hooray!
Decided to use Go this year, but wasn't a fan. I still have a few to finish off so will come back to it.
Kotlin this year - really loved using this language. Loads of functional features, lots of stuff made really elegant for the developer, thumbs up!
Decided to try Rust this year. I can see how it's good for the applications for which it was designed, but I think it's a pretty niche case, and there's a lot of boilerplate / admin / babysitting you have to do for 99% of applications which don't need it. Glad I have given it a go though.
I ended up using TypeScript this year - it was inevitable one year that I'd use one of JS or TS, thought I should improve my knowledge in this area and would much rather use TS than JS.
After doing some .NET at work in the past I thought I should give C# a go and see how I get on with it, given I enjoyed working with it on a project.
Haskell... How bad can it be? It has a reputation as a bit of a language for academics, though I thought it was actually pretty pleasant to use and quite easy to pick up given my Clojure knowledge. Let's see if i get further than in 2016 which was the last time I tried to use a functional programming language... and hopefully leading to use F# in the future!
Using Ruby this year mainly so I can upskill and help out with a website that is built on Ruby on Rails more easily.