🎄 Advent of Code – Python Solutions

Welcome to my repository of solutions for Advent of Code, an annual set of festive programming challenges that run each December. These puzzles are great for sharpening problem-solving skills and experimenting with new approaches.

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🐍 About This Repo

• 🔧 Language: Python (for now!)
• 📆 Years: 2022, 2023, 2024 (work in progress)
• ✅ Goal: Practice algorithms, improve Python fluency, and have some fun solving challenges.
• 🚧 Status: Not all days are completed — I’m working through them over time to keep my skills sharp.
• 🦀 Future Plan: I’m aiming to revisit and reimplement many of these in Rust as a way to build up my systems programming skills and explore a new paradigm.

Each year is organized into folders like so: 📁 2022/ 📁 2023/ 📁 2024/

Each folder contains:

• Input .txt files (and sometimes testing .txt)
• One Python file per day, named by the day (e.g. Day5.py)

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📌 Why I Do This

Advent of Code helps me:

• Practice writing clean, efficient Python
• Think through problems from multiple angles
• Keep coding fun and consistent
• Explore new languages like Rust

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🚀 How to Run

To run a solution for a specific day (example from 2024 Day 5):

cd 2024/Day5
python Day5.py