Advent of Code Template

If you're like me, you'll spend just as much time writing simple I/O as you will actually doing the fun stuff!

Here's some simple I/O for solving Advent of Code puzzles effectively.

Note: This uses Python 3. If you want to solve the puzzles in another language, you're out of luck. Sorry about that.

Pre-reqs

Python 3

If you want to use the make pretty command, first run make deps

Puzzle Prep

Copy the day_temp directory.

make copy YEAR=<y> DAY=<d>

... where <y> and <d> are integers.

Example:

make copy YEAR=2022 DAY=1

Provide puzzle inputs

Copy the example input into /2022/day_<d>/test_input.txt file.

Copy the puzzle input into the day's /2022/day_<d>/input.txt file.

Solving the puzzle

Open /<y>/day_<d>/solution.py.

Implement the functions part_one and part_two (make sure to return the solution).

To run your solution(s) against the test input:

make test YEAR=<y> DAY=<d>

To run your solution(s) against the puzzle input:

make run YEAR=<y> DAY=<d>

Helpful hints

By default, YEAR is set to 2022.

If you don't want to constantly provide the day:

export DAY=<d>

Example

The solution to 2021's Day 1 puzzle is included. See /2021/day_1/solution.py for the code.

$ export YEAR=2021
$ export DAY=1
$ make test
Part 1: 7
Part 2: 5
$ make run
Part 1: 1676
Part 2: 1706

Notice that the test results aren't compared to the example solutions provided. This could be added, but I'm lazy :)

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Good Luck!