Day 1: Secret Entrance
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
- You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ if you prefer sending it through a URL
FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465


Golang
func part1() { // file, _ := os.Open("sample.txt") file, _ := os.Open("input.txt") defer file.Close() scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file) n := 100 current := 50 pointingAt0 := 0 for scanner.Scan() { line := scanner.Text() num, _ := strconv.Atoi(line[1:]) if line[0] == 'L' { current = ((current-num)%n + n) % n } else { current = (current + num) % n } if current == 0 { pointingAt0++ } } fmt.Println(pointingAt0) } func part2() { // file, _ := os.Open("sample.txt") file, _ := os.Open("input.txt") defer file.Close() scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file) n := 100 current := 50 pointingAt0 := 0 for scanner.Scan() { line := scanner.Text() num, _ := strconv.Atoi(line[1:]) rounds := num / n pointingAt0 += rounds num = num % n new := -1 if line[0] == 'L' { new = ((current-num)%n + n) % n if current != 0 && (new > current || new == 0) { pointingAt0++ } } else { new = (current + num) % n if current != 0 && (new < current || new == 0) { pointingAt0++ } } current = new } fmt.Println(pointingAt0) }