Functions as input, and modular monkeys.

The Functional Options Pattern is a safer alternative to struct literals, and is commonly used in Go. These are the challenges I encountered when trying it out in Rust.

Convert terminal output to tree structure of files and directories

Moving items between stacks.

Number interval intersections.

Set operations on the contents of Elf backpacks.

Warmup problem #2

Warmup problem

Advent of Code 2022 is finally upon us!

Finding valid input for an ALU program. Graph search. DAGs. Virtual machine.

Cuboid subtractions and intersections.

Quantum dice and counting multiverses.

Tree-traversal for snailfish number calculation purposes.

Parsing bits and bytes in Go.

Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm with a priority queue implemented using container/heap.

Growing petabyte-long molecules at home.

Repeated non-linear transformations.

Very exhaustive cave pathfinding.

Cellular automation in a 2D grid.

Bracket matching/autocompletion using a stack.

Flood fill in a more literal sense. Implemented using DisjointSet, also known as Union-Find algorithm.

Decoding scrambled seven-segment displays using bitwise set operations.

Introduction to crustacean based optimization methods.

Modeling an exponentially growing population of lanternfish.

Helping Santa’s submarine avoid dangerous clusters of hydrothermal vents using a line drawing algorithm.

Implementing the bingo subsystem for Santa’s submarine.

Or how to solve a bitwise operations problem using strings.

Computing ups and downs.

Comparing moving windows