Advent of Code 2018

Solutions for 2018's Advent of Code challenges and attempts at them

Purpose and Priorities

First, no pretension of even coming close to getting high in any leaderboard.

Second, I see this is as a nice way of solving puzzles and improving my problem-solving and programming skills.

Third, I want this to be fun, so I might just skip one or two and, in order, I'll approach any solutions...

Language

Try it in Go first, Kotlin => Java second, Python as a last resort (because I'll probably not get the solution earlier and Python allows anybody to just from allTheThings import WhateverYouNeed...).

Toolset

Try it with as little frameworks or external tools as possible, except for build toolchains and utilities like logging, annotations, etc.

Speed Before Readability

Because speed is key here, I'll sacrifice readability for speed.

Experiments and Elegance

Fair chance that I'll forego an easy solution for something cool or elegant, e.g. run a simple problem on a full-blown Kubernetes cluster or rewrite something to a one-liner.