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Advent Of Code
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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev! Other challenges are also welcome!
Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
Everybody Codes is another collection of programming puzzles with seasonal events.
EC 2025
AoC 2025
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| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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- Keep all content related to advent of code in some way
- If what youre posting relates to a day, put in brackets the year and then day number in front of the post title (e.g. [2024 Day 10])
- When an event is running, keep solutions in the solution megathread to avoid the community getting spammed with posts
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(Browser-based) Javascript
This year I'm tired of dealing with reading from files and setting up IDEs, so I'm attempting to solve each day directly in my web browser's console: after opening my problem input in a new tab I can do
mySolutionFunction(document.body.textContent)in that tab's console. Thankfully the browser I use (ff) has a mode that lets me write several lines and then run them, otherwise this would not be simpler. Unfortunately, this means I lost my code for day1 when I closed the tab a bit too quickly.I didn't want to use regex for today; you need backreferences and those are impossible to optimize if they blow up (computationally speaking). I'm not so sure my solution for part 2 actually does run in more linear time than a regex with a single backreference does...