🎄Advent of Code

Advent of Code is an annual event featuring daily programming puzzles designed for various skill levels. Created by Eric Wastl, the event runs every December, encouraging participants to solve challenges in their preferred programming language. It serves as a platform for learning, interview preparation, company training, coursework, or friendly competition.

💻 About

This repository contains PHP template as well as my own solutions to the Advent of Code challenges. The solutions will be published daily the day after the challenge is released. The main purpose of this repository is to keep track of my progress, inspire others, compare solutions and showcase different approaches to solving the same problem.

🧱 Template

The template branch contains only the template (command wrapper) for the PHP solution classes. For each day of the challenge:

• create a new class implementing the AdventOfCode\Solution\SolutionInterface interface inside the src/Solution/Solver/ directory,
• create an input file in the input/ directory,

Both the class and the input file should be named according to the day of the challenge - DayXX where XX is the 2 digit day number.

❓ How to run the code?

To run the code, you need to have PHP 8.4 installed on your machine. You can run the code by executing the following command:

php aoc solve <day>

Where <day> is the day of the challenge you want to run. For example, to run the solution for day 3, you would execute:

php aoc solve 3

Benchmarking

To benchmark the code, you need to pass --benchmark option to the command:

php aoc solve --benchmark 3

Benchmarking is done by executing the solution 1000 times and calculating the average execution time and memory usage.