Advent of Code 2024

Welcome to my solutions for Advent of Code 2024! This repository contains solutions written in Go.

🎄 About Advent of Code

Advent of Code is an annual coding event where participants solve daily programming puzzles during the month of December. Each day provides a new challenge, ranging in difficulty, often requiring creative problem-solving and algorithmic thinking.

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go: Ensure you have Go installed. You can download it from golang.org.
• Git: Clone the repository using Git.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/licorice-vector/advent-of-code-2024.git
   cd advent-of-code-2024
   

2. Install dependencies (if any):

   go mod tidy
   

Running a Solution

Each day's solution is in its own directory under ./days/dayXX/. To run a solution:

go run days/day01/solution.go days/day01/main.go

Testing

To run the tests for a specific day:

go test ./days/day01/

📂 Project Structure

advent-of-code-2024/
├── days/
│   ├── day01/
│   │   ├── main.go           # Main code
│   │   ├── example_test.go   # Test of the example
│   │   ├── solution.go       # Solution for Day 1
│   │   ├── input.txt         # Input data for Day 1
│   │   └── example.txt       # Example input for testing
│   └── dayXX/                # Solutions for subsequent days
├── .gitignore                # Ignored files and directories
├── go.mod                    # Go module file
├── go.sum                    # Dependencies
└── README.md                 # Project documentation

🛠 Tools & Libraries

• Go: The primary programming language.
• VS Code: Recommended editor with Go extensions for debugging and linting.

🎯 Goals

• Solve all 25 puzzles (or as many as possible).
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient Go code.
• Explore new algorithms and data structures.

📅 Progress

Day	Part 1	Part 2
Day 1	✅	✅
Day 2	✅	✅
Day 3	✅	✅
Day 4	✅	✅
Day 5	✅	✅
Day 6	✅	✅
Day 7	✅	✅
Day 8	✅	✅
Day 9	✅	✅
Day 10	✅	✅
Day 11	✅	✅
Day 12	✅	✅
Day 13	✅	✅
Day 14	✅	✅
Day 15	✅	✅
Day 16	✅	✅
Day 17	✅	✅
Day 18	✅	✅
Day 19	✅	✅
Day 20	✅	✅
Day 21	✅	✅
Day 22	✅	✅
Day 23	✅	✅
Day 24	✅	✅
Day 25	✅	⭐

🌟 Acknowledgments

Thanks to Eric Wastl for creating Advent of Code and providing an amazing way to challenge ourselves each year.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.