Advent Of Code

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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev!

Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

AoC 2024

Solution Threads

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25

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• Keep all content related to advent of code in some way
• If what youre posting relates to a day, put in brackets the year and then day number in front of the post title (e.g. [2024 Day 10])
• When an event is running, keep solutions in the solution megathread to avoid the community getting spammed with posts

Relevant Communities

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Relevant Links

• Advent of Code Homepage

Credits

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

console.log('Hello World')

MODERATORS

{left, right} =
  File.read!("./input.txt")
  |> String.split("\n", trim: true)
  |> Enum.map(fn line ->
    String.split(line)
    |> Enum.map(&String.to_integer/1)
    |> List.to_tuple()
  end)
  |> Enum.unzip()
  |> then(fn {left, right} ->
    {Enum.sort(left), Enum.sort(right)}
  end)

diffs =
  Enum.zip(left, right)
  |> Enum.map(fn {l, r} -> abs(l - r) end)
  |> Enum.sum()

freqs =
  Enum.filter(right, fn r -> r in left end)
  |> Enum.frequencies()

freqsum =
  Enum.map(left, fn n ->
    freq = Map.get(freqs, n, 0)
    n * freq
  end)
  |> Enum.sum()

IO.puts("part 1: #{diffs}")
IO.puts("part 2: #{freqsum}")