advent-of-code-2023

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Advent of Code 2023

In this year's edition of Advent of Code (AoC), I will continue with the lessons I learned from the 2022 edition.

Recently, I finished reading "The Clean Coder" by Robert C. Martin, where he speaks highly of test-driven development. So, I will try to achieve as high of a test coverage as possible for this rendition of Advent of Code. This will be in conjunction with a "proper" development environment. With experience developing within the Home Assistant project, I got familiar with the concept of dev-containers with VS-Code. So, a dev container will also be included in this repository.

In short, I hope to get familiar with the following:

• Test-driven development
• Development containers
• GO

Other thoughts

With the wide accessibility of "coding knowledge" through ChatGPT, forums, YouTube, etc. I have found it very relaxing and giving to go back to the documentation and books to find solutions to the issues I encounter.

Since there is a speed element to the AoC-challenge, I will also allow myself to use ChatGPT/Bard to get some "quick fixes". This will mainly/solely be used to understand error messages spat out while compiling/running the code.

In short, the knowledge sources for this edition will be:

1. An Introduction to Programming in Go
2. ChatGPT/Bard

Lessons learned

Day 9

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 92.7% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_9  0.003s

Day 8

A bit lower test presentage today. I need to find a good way to test mulithreaded code.

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 85.7% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_8  0.004s

Day 7

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 93.2% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_4  0.003s

Day 6

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 80.0% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_4  0.003s

Day 4

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 93.8% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_4  0.003s

Day 3

Good night...

$ go test -cover 

PASS
coverage: 95.7% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_3  0.003

Day 2

Today, I am closing in to the holy 100% test coverage!

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 92.1% of statements
ok      github.com/adamzki99/advent-of-code-2023/day_2  0.003s

Day 1

Today, I only achieved a 54.5% test coverage, but using TDD is fun! It makes one really think about the problem before trying to "throw" a solution at it.

$ go test -cover

PASS
coverage: 54.5% of statements
ok      day_1/main      0.004s

I have also extended the knowledge sources to include the official documentation.