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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)

submitted 2 weeks ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Day 15

Pretty easy. Just check in the direction you want to push if you have space.

p2 DNF

Currently debugging with test cases from the subreddit. I’ve also created a shitty visualiser for it, stay tuned!

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Re: p2

Definitely a bit tedious, I had to "play" a whole session to spot bugs that I had. It took me far longer than average. I had buggy dissepearing boxes because of update order, I would reccomend a basic test case of pushing a line/pyramid of boxes in every direction.

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