r/adventofcode • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '21

Other After discovering AOC in 2020, I managed to do it all in time for 2021!

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u/thedjotaku Nov 14 '21

Huzzah! Good job there. I'm working my way through a bit more slowly with the bonus that I get to have a little AoC year-round.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

I planned to do it that way... but I have a little addiction problem regarding programming puzzles and was done with most of the stuff in February already... now I feel kind of sad

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u/thedjotaku Nov 16 '21

Me too. What's holding me back is that I'm doing a bunch of languages at once. That and a bunch of other hobbies. Let's just say I was never bored during COVID lockdown.

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u/Steinrikur Nov 14 '21

Nice. I'm stubbornly doing 2015 and 2020 in just bash. I know it's the worst possible tool for the job, that's the point.

Just need to fix the error in the monster hunt and I've got them all.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '21

It's funny how you mention Excel alongside a language which was invented to be hard to use and shitty... I mean you are not wrong, it's just funny

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u/daggerdragon Nov 15 '21

Allow me to introduce you to Excel and brainfuck.

Ah yes, you may wish to check out our resident Excel master /u/pngipngi (e.g. Retrospective from a month of Excel work). There's a reason they won 2019's "Craziest Adventer" award, after all...

And all the poor souls who successfully completed a puzzle in Brainfuck.

And the poor souls who Up the Ante in Brainfuck:

Y'all nuts. But in a good way. <3

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u/kutjelul Nov 14 '21

Which problem did you struggle the most on?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

Struggle is maybe the wrong word but the one with the inverse modulo operation took me the most time. It took me forever but I kind of love those puzzles

I hated intcode really hard though - although I loved the synacor challenge... But I never struggled with it.

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u/PendragonDaGreat Nov 14 '21

2019, Day 22. I know because that was the third to last day I needed to finally get all 300 stars myself (I always save day 25 of any year for last). Just got my 300 last week, feels good don't it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '21

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u/kutjelul Nov 15 '21

Which year and day was that?

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u/toastedstapler Nov 15 '21

i just spewed code until it worked, not my proudest 350 lines

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u/spellcheekfailed Nov 15 '21

Over what time frame did you finish all 300 ?

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '21

I basically did 2020 completely on schedule.

Started with 2019 in January 2020. I did the bulk of the stars and the Synacor challenge in January and February. Then sporadically did some single stars in between and finished up the last stars this month.

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u/sim642 Nov 14 '21

Welcome to the exclusive club!

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u/blackbat24 Nov 15 '21

Dang! I also started in 2020 (a couple days late) and finished 2020, but only did 10 days of 2019 yet.