Advent of Code puzzles in idiomatic Kotlin
Advent of Code is an annual December event, where holiday-themed puzzles are published every day from December 1 to December 25. With the permission of Eric Wastl, creator of Advent of Code, we'll show how to solve these puzzles using the idiomatic Kotlin style:
Advent of Code 2021
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We'll take you through the basic tips on how to get up and running with solving Advent of Code challenges with Kotlin:
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Day 1: Sonar sweep
Apply windowed and count functions to work with pairs and triplets of integers.
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Check out the solution from Anton Arhipov on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 2: Dive!
Learn about destructuring declarations and the when expression.
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Check out the solution from Pasha Finkelshteyn on GitHub or watch the video:
Day 3: Binary diagnostic
Explore different ways to work with binary numbers.
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Check out the solution from Sebastian Aigner on Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 4: Giant squid
Learn how to parse the input and introduce some domain classes for more convenient processing.
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Check out the solution from Anton Arhipov on the GitHub or watch the video:
Advent of Code 2020
Day 1: Report repair
Explore input handling, iterating over a list, different ways of building a map, and using the let function to simplify your code.
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Check out the solution from Svetlana Isakova on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 2: Password philosophy
Explore string utility functions, regular expressions, operations on collections, and how the let function can be helpful to transform your expressions.
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Check out the solution from Svetlana Isakova on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 3: Toboggan trajectory
Compare imperative and more functional code styles, work with pairs and the reduce() function, edit code in the column selection mode, and fix integer overflows.
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Check out the solution from Mikhail Dvorkin on GitHub or watch the video:
Day 4: Passport processing
Apply the when expression and explore different ways of how to validate the input: utility functions, working with ranges, checking set membership, and matching a particular regular expression.
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Check out the solution from Sebastian Aigner on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 5: Binary boarding
Use the Kotlin standard library functions (replace(), toInt(), find()) to work with the binary representation of numbers, explore powerful local functions, and learn how to use the max() function in Kotlin 1.5.
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Check out the solution from Svetlana Isakova on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 6: Custom customs
Learn how to group and count characters in strings and collections using the standard library functions: map(), reduce(), sumOf(), intersect(), and union().
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Check out the solution from Anton Arhipov on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 7: Handy haversacks
Learn how to use regular expressions, use Java's compute() method for HashMaps from Kotlin for dynamic calculations of the value in the map, use the forEachLine() function to read files, and compare two types of search algorithms: depth-first and breadth-first.
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Check out the solution from Pasha Finkelshteyn on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 8: Handheld halting
Apply sealed classes and lambdas to represent instructions, apply Kotlin sets to discover loops in the program execution, use sequences and the sequence { } builder function to construct a lazy collection, and try the experimental measureTimedValue() function to check performance metrics.
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Check out the solution from Sebastian Aigner on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
Day 9: Encoding error
Explore different ways to manipulate lists in Kotlin using the any(), firstOrNull(), firstNotNullOfOrNull(), windowed(), takeIf(), and scan() functions, which exemplify an idiomatic Kotlin style.
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Check out the solution from Svetlana Isakova on the Kotlin Blog or watch the video:
What's next?
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