Dec 1st 2015
Following the the tradition of "advent calendars" , the Advent of code puzzles are published daily from the 1st of December up to the 25th. They require you to write a small computer program to get to the solution. Advent of Code puzzles are usually given in this form: there is a blurb explaining the problem, a series of examples, and the question, which is the puzzle you need to solve, with your input. Usually the puzzles increase of complexity day after day, and sometimes require to build upon programming concepts that you touched the days earlier. I am going to try and tackle the Advent of Code puzzles for the past and current year, using for each year a different technology, and I am going to jot down my own personal notes about them. For tackling the 2015 puzzles I decided to use Go , and you will be able to find my code in my github project . For the 1st December 2015 the puzzle states: Santa is trying to deliver presents in a large apartment building, but ...