Advent of Code 2017

This is a repository of solutions to the Advent of Code 2017 challenges. I haven't thought very hard about these solutions, they're kind of the simplest thing I could think of to solve the problems. There will be some brute force and a few places where I've completely given up on a good solution.

I'll be using Pony to solve these problems. I work with Pony at my job at Wallaroo Labs, but the language is evolving and sometimes I don't get to try out all of the new features and libraries, so I'm trying to do that occassionally with this project. For example, this is my first time playing around with the new itertools library.

Build the Programs

You should be able to build each of the solutions by running the Pony compiler (version 0.20.0) in the directory like this:

ponyc .

That should produce an executable with the same name as the directory you are in. So for example, to build the day8 solution, you would run ponyc . in the day8 directory.

Running the Programs

These programs take two arguments at the commandline:

• either part1 or part2 to indicate which problem they are solving
• an input list or an input file, depending on how I felt like entering the problem