Advent of Code Solutions

Welcome to my Advent of Code solutions! Advent of Code is a yearly December event hosted by Eric Wastl where code exercises are published throughout the month in increasing difficulty.

Session Cookie

Fetching data or submitting answers to Advent of Code requires a session cookie to authenticate all requests. Log in to Advent of Code, open up the browser’s developer tools, find the "session" cookie and copy the value to $XDG_DATA_HOME/aoc/session_cookie.txt

Example session_cookie.txt

session=1234abcd

Inputs

Problem inputs are not stored in this repo to respect the policy of Advent of Code. Instead, input files are fetched and cached under $XDG_CACHE_HOME/aoc. Fetching and caching the problem inputs happens automatically when running a problem.

Setup and Run

Setup

$ virtualenv ./venv
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ pip install .

Each problem is runnable as a script.

Example

$ python ./2015/d1p1.py
280

When starting a new day, use aoc-start-problem to generate a template script.

$ aoc-start-problem 2015 3 > ./2015/d3p1.py