Advent of Code

2018

This year I'm attempting at solving Advent of Code by using a new language every day. Some friends helped me create a list of languages of which I can pick from. Each day I first solve the problem in Python (or something similar) to help me understand the problem as well as creating a solution to remain competitive in my private leaderboards. Then over the next few days, time permitting, I will pick a language and come up with a solution in that language for at least one part of the problem.

Charity

For every hour a solution takes me (up to 5 hours per solution) I will donate $2 to a charity of my choosing at the end of the event. I chose a large interval of time because I'm learning a new language each day, if the solution takes me less than an hour then I will use a 10 minute interval up to 50 minutes.

Charity Update

Since these solutions have been taking me longer than expected to complete I've decided to donate $200 towards the GitHub fund. The GitHub fund is a fund created by my employer, where the proceeds split equally and go to 6 different charities. The 6 charities these funds went to are: FIRST, Girls Who Code, Public Patent Foundation, Year Up, EFF and Women's Refugee Commission. GitHub graciously matched my donation totaling $400 to be split. If I am unable to complete my goal of a new language every day by the end of December I will donate another $50 to the GitHub fund.

Charity Update 2

Near the end of December I ended up being much busier than expected. I haven't had time to finish the challenges so I've donated another $50 towards the GitHub fund. Once again, GitHub generously matched the donation. Thanks for the fun during advent of code! Although I wasn't able to finish in the 25 days I did truly enjoy the challenges. I plan to complete the rest of the challenges over the next while! See you next year!

Solutions

• Day 1: (Python) (Brainfuck - 5 hours)
• Day 2: (Python) (Whitespace - 7 hours)
• Day 3: (Python)
• Day 4: (Python)
• Day 5: (Python) (Racket - 2 hours)
• Day 6: (Python)
• Day 7: (Python)
• Day 8: (Python) (OCaml - 6 hours)
• Day 9: (Python)
• Day 10: (Python)
• Day 11: (Python) (SQLite - 2 hours)
• Day 12: (Python)
• Day 13: (Python)
• Day 14: (Python)
• Day 15: (TBD)
• Day 16: (Python)
• Day 17: (TBD)
• Day 18: (TBD)
• Day 19: (Python)
• Day 20: (TBD)
• Day 21: (TBD)
• Day 22: (TBD)
• Day 23: (TBD)
• Day 24: (TBD)
• Day 25: (TBD)

Permitted languages

• Ada
• Algol 68
• Bash
• Brainfuck
• C
• C#
• COBOL
• GDScript
• Go
• Hodor
• Java
• Julia
• Lua
• Nim
• Ocaml
• Perl
• Pikascript
• Racket
• Ruby
• Rust
• SQLite
• Swift
• Turing
• Vimscript
• Whitespace