My solutions to the great and ingenious Advent of Code 2018 coding challenge by Eric Wastl.
I am doing these challenges for the second year in a row now and I am totally addicted to them. If you are into programming, into logic, maybe also a little bit into competition, this one is for you as well!
My solutions
- ...are my own solutions in the very first commit after I solved the puzzle. Those are "dirty" commits.
- ...are then refined in a "clean up" effort - this is where I add tests as well, which I find very important.
- ...and then are improved by adding ideas I get from reading other people's solutions or discussions on Reddit - this is my third iteration over my code: I add nice ideas, tricks, whatever I find very useful.
My daily routine in December
I set my alarm clock to 5:55 in the morning. Get up, prepare a coffee while then starting to read the challenge text on my tablet. My first coding is usually quite dirty, but solve the puzzles. Then in the second iteration I clean things up - because I am a clean code guy.
I want my code to be concise, clean, readable and fast. All of these things are supported perfectly by Kotlin, by the way. :)
My repo
...contains just my solution. Lots of personal preferences and the way I tick is contained here. There generally is no best solution, let alone a single solution.
I tweak my code quite a bit before I am pleased and happy. So should you! Happy coding!