advent of code 2022
My second year doing Advent of Code. This year seems smoother but still I had to poke around on the internet when I was just not getting anywhere. Here are my takeaways.
- Sometimes, I just needed a walkthrough on youtube to confirm what exactly the question is looking for.
- There are times when my solution works only for the test case and not on the main puzzle. In these situations, I use published solutions to generate some additional test cases for my code to debug.
- Then there are the ones that I had no idea how to solve and got inspiration from the internet on what the general approach is but I never copied code.
- Yes it takes me 10+ hours of coding on the upper level puzzles.
- As always, I am humbled by the experience.
- Oh, I use vanilla JS on Replit but towards the end the formatting on Replit started to go wonky and I had to do most my work with VSCode/local.
- I did solve all days but there are 3 optimization part-Bs that I am giving up. Probably can switch to C# and brute force them but that defeats the spirit of this game.
- Till next year, it has been frustrating and fun.
Current State: 46 / 49 points