Advent of Code 2024 exchange

This repository is used to exchange ideas and code related to the Advent of Code 2024

Join Advent of Code

1. Join Advent of Code here
   • You can join with your Github account

Choosing a Development Language / IDE

You will need an Editor of some sort. The recommendation is to use Visual Studio Code - it is lightweight and free and supports almost every development language.

Choose a language you would like to learn. If you have no idea at all which one to choose, here are safe choices:

• Java - Never can go wrong with this. Our key language for building services
• Javascript (Truescript) - There are some doubts whether this really is a programming language. You need it if you want to do Web development
• Python3 - Very universal. Can do anything on any platform. If you are interested in DevOps, try this

For the interested, there are some interesting background links

• Advent of Code 2023
• Google Trends

How to Work with Git/GitHub

There are plenty of tutorials. A good starting point is the GitHub Tutorial

How to Work with this Project

0. Create a free GitHub account: https://github.com/signup
1. Fork this project into your own account
2. Clone your forked project to your local machine
3. Work in your editor and create the code for the exercise.
   • In the folder exchange in the root of the project, you will find folders named day01 to day25.
   • Go to the folder for the day's task you are working on. Inside the folder, you will find a README.md file with a link to the exercise for the day.
   • Create a folder within the day's task folder with your name (i.e. exchange/day01/yourname), and create any code within that folder. This folder will be uploaded later, your name identifies your solution for the task.
   • Write your cool code in the language of your choice in your named folder created in the previous step.
   • Once you are happy with the result, submit your answer for the day's task to Advent of Code. Don't forget to complete the second part of the solution to get the stars ⭐️ for the day!
   • Share your code with the team, as explained in the next steps! 👍 ⭐️
4. Commit and Push your code to your fork.
   This is just a fancy way of saying uploading your changes back to your Gitlab forked project.
5. Create a Pull-Request. This will merge your solution into the upstream repository.
6. Sync changes from the original project take a look at the solution of others.

Help! I need somebody!

Don't panic!

You can always talk to your best friend on the Internet: https://www.google.de And if you are stuck, write an issue in the upstream project: https://github.com/Friends-of-AoC/Advent-of-Code-2024-exchange/issues