pawciow / adventofcode

This is my repository for Advent of Code 2022

AdventOfCode

This is my repository for Advent of Code 2022. I wanted to participate to train my algorthmics and learn C++20 features in practice.

What is AdventOfCode

This is a competition held every year during the Advent, available on https://adventofcode.com/

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

Minimal requirements to build

• C++20
• GCC 11.0
• Boost

How to build

1. Navigate to project folder
2. Create build folder

mkdir _build

3. Create "inputs" folder

mkdir inputs

4. Navigate to build folder

cd _build

5. Run cmake

cmake ..

6. Make project

make

How it works

In main function you can create a class associated to specific day during the competition. After creation you can pass it down to a helper function called "checkResults()" with corresponding input file name. Remember to download input file and put it in inputs folder.

For task five it should look like this:

• in main.cpp:

int main() {
    TaskFive task;
    checkResults(task, "inputs/taskFive.txt");
}

Example output

Example output for example given in previous section:

Task path is "/mnt/c/projects/AdventOfCode/inputs/taskFive.txt"
For my first star result is: ZWHVFWQWW
Task path is "/mnt/c/projects/AdventOfCode/inputs/taskFive.txt"
For my second star result is: HZFZCCWWV