Advent-of-code

Here is a project where you can find the python scripts I imagined to solve the advent-of-code games. Feel free to open an Issue if you want to discuss the algorithms or ask for help. Have fun!

Install guidance

1. First, create virtual environment

We use mamba because it enables us to use python 3.11 as of november 2022 and it is a very powerful dependency solver. If you already use conda, please see Troubleshooting

$ mamba create --name advent python=3.11
$ mamba activate advent

2. Clone and Install package

(advent)$ git clone [email protected]:x0s/advent-of-code.git
(advent)$ make install

If you want to contribute and/or see your changes reflected, you may prefer to install in editable mode with make install EDIT=1

3. Set token to be able to retrieve your game inputs

Here is a nice explanation how to get the token. Then, generate the config file, replacing <YOUR_TOKEN>:

(advent)$ make config TOKEN=<YOUR_TOKEN>
Token saved in advent_of_code/config.toml

This file is ignored by git, preventing to push your personal token online ;)

3.Optional. Build Docker image and run commands

From this moment, you can build the docker image and forward any make commands to the container replacing make by make_in_container

(advent) make build
(advent) make_in_container help

4. Launch a game

There are games in two parts every day of the advent for a given year. For instance, the following command will launch part 1 of the game issued the 13th, December 2022:

(advent)$ make game WHEN=2022/13-1

To run it inside the container:

(advent)$ make_in_container game WHEN=2022/13-1

For now, the available games are:

• 2023: days=[01, 02, 03]
• 2022: days=[01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16-1, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22-1(wip)]
• 2021: days=[01, 02]

5. Launch the tests

Launch the test and choose if you want the details of the test suite

(advent)$ make test
(advent)$ make test VERBOSE=1

or testing only one day (in verbose mode)

(advent)$ make test_this DAY=2022/02

In case of doubt make help will cover you.

Troubleshooting

Mamba asking you to mamba init

If you already have conda environments, mamba may ask you to mamba init in order to take over the conda base env. If you do so, we will have to set it back. Nothing will be lost.

• Check the environments you have (for ie):

(base)$ conda info --envs
base                  *  /home/user_name/anaconda3
test-env                 /home/user_name/anaconda3/envs/test-env

• Then we init mamba (the conda envs are no longer reachable by their name)

  (base)$ mamba init
  (base)$ mamba create --name advent python=3.11
  (base)$ mamba activate advent
(advent)$ conda info --envs
                         /home/user_name/anaconda3
                         /home/user_name/anaconda3/envs/test-env
base                     /home/user_name/mambaforge
advent                *  /home/user_name/mambaforge/envs/advent

• Let's rehabiliate the conda envs:

(advent)$ conda config --append envs_dirs /home/user_name/anaconda3/envs/
base                     /home/user_name/anaconda3
test-env                 /home/user_name/anaconda3/envs/test-env
base                     /home/user_name/mambaforge
advent                *  /home/user_name/mambaforge/envs/advent

Now the problem is solved and you can activate/deactivate any of the mamba/conda envs like this:

  (base)$ conda activate advent
(advent)$ conda deactivate
  (base)$