Advent of Code in C++

Sometimes when frustration hits hard during AoC trying to solve the puzzles using C you stare with awe at the C++ STL and all the beautiful library functions available. So I decided to try out C++ in order to get the best of both worlds. Still in control, but with some useful toolkits available. I am aiming to learn "Modern C++" and will aim to learn C++ 20 standard. Will take some iterations before I can utilize the full potential of the library functions. Some of the code will be near C to start with.

While I try to learn the benefits and caveats of C++ I also decided to take on the challenge to learn CMake, why this part of the repo is built using CMake. Will be interesting.

2024:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
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11	⭐⭐
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14	⭐⭐
15	⭐

2023:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
1	⭐⭐	0.223 ms	3.368 ms	Ranges, ranges, ranges...
2	⭐⭐	0.303 ms	0.280 ms	Still don't like this...
3	⭐⭐			Not a very modern approach. Straight translation of C solution. Will look into this again later.
4	⭐⭐
8	⭐⭐			Interesting how "easy" it is to program C++ in "Python style" using the STL...
11	⭐⭐			Very "loopy" approach, but working nicely for these sizes of input.

2022:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
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2021:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
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2020:

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15	⭐⭐
17	⭐⭐

2019:

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2018:

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2017:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
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3	⭐⭐

2016:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
1	⭐⭐

2015:

Day	Stars	Timing Part 1	Timing Part 2	Comment
1	⭐⭐
2	⭐⭐
3	⭐⭐			Fun with classes