This year I was introduced to the Advent of Code by Julien and Hielke, who organized a local advent.
It is a great initiative, it is nice to be focused on coding and it adds to a festive atmosphere. Together with four other team members the challenge was accepted. We all took a different approach, as it also stimulates learning a bit about new stuff (e.g. using Kotlin vs Java).
Due to time constraints I have solved only the first half of the advent puzzles, and also by using ‘plain old Java’. But my personal challenge is to look back at the code and apply a better (more modern) alternative in the time to come.
My code can be found at https://github.com/martinkoel/adventofcode-2018 , be warned – it is ‘Hackathon style’ code – as you get more points the faster you finish..