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Aoc2020

  1. Day 5 - Simple and yet still too complex

    In today's assignment, it was not very complex to find a solution. But even in a solution you still can make things too complex. Would I've made a small drawing of what I was doing, I could have made my solution even more simple. Also using some of Haskells features…
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  2. Day 4 - Daily routine

    In today's assignment, we have to check passports to see if they are valid. There are different fields with information in it. For a password to be valid there should be 7 fields present and there is 1 specific field that may be present. In part 2 there were some…
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  3. Day 3 - Read, read, read!

    Opening the page for day 3 gives me a small scare... grids, it's the first thing that catches my eye. As you may have guessed, I'm not a fan of grid assignments. I knew that they were coming, but so soon in the competition? After my initial reaction, I started…
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  4. Day 2 - Bigger is better... or isn't it?

    After a rusty start of day 1, we have to fix a broken password database today Our input exists of a list of passwords and for each password a policy. This is our example input: 1-3 a: abcde 1-3 b: cdefg 2-9 c: cccccccccLooking the first part of each line…
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  5. Day 1 - Rusty at start

    Haskell is my language of choice for the annual Advent of Code event. Most people probably don't know what I'm talking about. Within the developer community, it might be known a bit more, but even there a lot of people might not know it. So let me explain, Advent of…
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