I did AoC for the first time last year, but it feels much easier this year. I think it's because I learned to solve "AoC-style" problems (which is a skill you can totally learn, like solving puzzles), but also that I've been Mr. Magooing through all the problems because I've assumed the problems are as simple as they seem, while many other, more traumatized AoC programmers, assume the worst and over-generalize or try to use algorithms that don't fit. Today's was pretty simple, I thought, although I might have just got lucky that I figured out the "gotchas", like the starting position stuff and how to detect a loop with a simple check (location + direction).
10:00 I just add a bool called keepGoing and add a check in the row
I did AoC for the first time last year, but it feels much easier this year. I think it's because I learned to solve "AoC-style" problems (which is a skill you can totally learn, like solving puzzles), but also that I've been Mr. Magooing through all the problems because I've assumed the problems are as simple as they seem, while many other, more traumatized AoC programmers, assume the worst and over-generalize or try to use algorithms that don't fit. Today's was pretty simple, I thought, although I might have just got lucky that I figured out the "gotchas", like the starting position stuff and how to detect a loop with a simple check (location + direction).
is kagi worth the money?
i've been really interested in trying it out.
I'm currently stuck on day 4 and breaking my brain. First time doing advent of code