Introduction
Introduction to Advent of Code 2024
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What is it all about?
Probably many of you already know what the Advent of Code is, but for those who doesn't, let me give you a quick overview. I, myself had no idea of this thing existing, until my friend wrote to me asking if I am going to participate, just one day before it has started. The Advent of Code is a set of programming challenges, one for each day of advent. The official website of this event is https://adventofcode.com/ where you can find all the information about the author and all the details about the initiative itself. Participation is free and everyone willing to test their skills can do it by simply logging in. The core of the page are of course the coding challenges themselves, which are posted one by one, everyday. When this article is posted it is already way after this year's edition has ended, but nothing to be worried about - you can still do all the challenges, even those from previous years are still there and are still accessible!
Why did I decided to take a part?
Well, the short answer is: Why not?
Using the button you will be able to log in choosing from couple of different available authentication options. I, personally, have chosen GitHub. Basically whatever your choice is, just follow the authentication steps and you will be redirected back to the main page.
Now we can see our name/nickname in the navigation bar and from now on we are good to go! Our progress will be stored so no worries that you will lose anything if you close the page.
Now lets take a look at the main page again - can you see the numbers? (in my case at the attached screenshot 1 to 6) These are the numbers of the puzzles for the specific day. By clicking on any of these numbers you will be redirected to the puzzle page with the whole description and a simple form to post your result and check if your answer is right or wrong, and if it's wrong there will be a short information why/what is wrong.