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author | Marcin Chrzanowski <m@m-chrzan.xyz> | 2021-02-16 22:28:18 -0500 |
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diff --git a/src/blog/advent-of-code-2020.html b/src/blog/advent-of-code-2020.html deleted file mode 100644 index 3b78433..0000000 --- a/src/blog/advent-of-code-2020.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,91 +0,0 @@ -title: Advent of Code 2020 -date: December 25, 2020 17:35 ---- -<p> Merry Christmas to all!</p> - -<p> -<a href='https://adventofcode.com/2020'>Advent of Code 2020</a> has come to an -end. At the time of this writing, around seven thousand people finished the -whole thing, out of the 150000 that had submitted a solution to the first day's -problem. And I'm one of them! -</p> - -<p> -You can see my solutions <a href='https://gitlab.com/m-chrzan/aoc2020'>here</a>. -I started out with C, moved on to Ruby, and near the end switched to Lua. I'm -going to need some Lua knowledge for the Redis section of the databases class -I'm taking right now, so AoC was a good time to get familiar with the language. -</p> - -<h3>Thoughts on AoC 2020</h3> - -<p> -I found most of the problems fairly simple, but it was fun to go through them -all anyways. -</p> - -<h4>Most Tedious Award goes to...</h4> - -<p> -<i>Day 20 Part 2</i>. My solution ended up being a good 340 lines of Lua split -between two scripts. This is the last problem I solved because I knew it would -require a lot of work to get working, so I procrastinated on it until the end. -</p> - -<p> -In the end, the process of solving this was actually kind of fun, and getting -the final solution satisfying. I think it might have something to do with the -geometric/visual nature of the problem. There's just something nice about -rotating and flipping ASCII squares with code, and seeing them all line up -correctly in the end. -</p> - -<h4>Most Cheesed Award goes to...</h4> -<p> -<i>Day 19 Part 2</i>. Rather than implementing a parser generator that could -handle this grammar by hand, I bodged together a -<a href='https://gitlab.com/m-chrzan/aoc2020/-/tree/master/19/b'> - Bison (aka Yacc) solution -</a>. It's not very pretty, especially the Bash script that just calls the -parser with each input word separately and counts how many times it didn't exit -with a syntax error. But it works! And I finally learned something about -Bison/Yacc and Flex/Lex, which I've had indirect exposure to before, but never -actually used. -</p> - -<p> -I was quite pleased with my Part 1 solution though, where I implemented a simple -recursive parser generator. -</p> - -<h5>Runner-up in the Most Cheesed category</h5> -<p> -<i>Day 13 Part 2</i>. I'll admit it, I just copied a Chinese Remainder Theorem -implementation from Rosetta Code. I'm sure the Python guys just used -<code>numpy</code>'s CRT, so treating it as a library function doesn't seem too -cheaty for me. -</p> - -<h4>Most Fun Award goes to...</h4> -<p> -Probably a tie between the already mentioned <i>Day 20 Part 2</i> and <i>Day 19 -Part 1</i>. Day 20 had that cool geometric component and satisfaction of -putting a puzzle together, but I'm a sucker for recursive parsers implemented -with higher order functions. -</p> - -<h3>Thoughts on Lua</h3> -<p> -Learning Lua was probably the most useful outcome of this year's AoC for me. I -feel pretty comfortable with the basic constructs of the language, and even -played around a bit with metatable-driven OOP. I don't know how closely I stuck -to general conventions, and didn't interact with any external libraries, but can -definitely read and write the language comfortably now. -</p> - -<p> -My one sentence summary of feelings towards Lua is that Go is to Java what Lua -is to Python/Ruby/JavaScript. Its very small vocabulary means you learn the -language quickly and don't need to think much while writing it, but your -programs can end up more verbose than the equivalent Ruby/Python. -</p> |