Advent of Code 2020

Repository for solving Advent of Code in Kotlin

Lessons learned

• Kotlin is fun to develop
  • Lots of small improvements that add up
  • Far less code
• Advent of Code Advent is a great way to improve development skills
  • Understanding and solving complex problems
  • Proper use of collections and control flow
  • Gain insights into the world of competitive programming
• Underestimation of the effort needed to solve Advent of Code

Conclusion: Recommendation for everyone!

Result

Getting started

Running

Project is already setup with gradle. To run the app:

• Navigate to top-level directory on the command line
• Run ./gradlew run to run all days
• Run ./gradlew run --args $DAY where $DAY is an integer to run a specific day

Testing

Project includes Junit and Hamcrest and a stub unit test to get you going. To run all tests:

• Navigate to top-level directory on the command line
• Run ./gradlew test
• Add --info, --debug or --stacktrace flags for more output