It’s day 2 and I’m already feeling tired to write AoC post. I’m writing this post while half asleep and slowly typing with a lots of typo every three words.
Somehow today I feel like I’m doing the puzzle very slow for an easy problem.
First, I need to read the problem statement at least three times to understand the problem. Maybe because I’m feeling tired today and just want to lazying around on the weekend.
Second, the input of today’s problem is not trivial to parse. One of my weakness when doing AoC is parsing the input. I usually use Python when the input format is not easy to parse for me to implement. But then I spent most of the time to code the input parser of my program for at least 10 minutes.
Third, I also spent so much time to naming my variable. When I’m coding the solution, I need to read again the problem statement to naming my variable. Then I become confused what to name my variable and decided just to naming it anything that come up in the problem statement.
Day 2: Cube Conundrum
For each line of input is a game. For each game, there are list of each colors (red, green, blue) and their count. Basically input below can be transform into table.
Game 1: 3 blue, 4 red; 1 red, 2 green, 6 blue; 2 greenGame 1
| red | green | blue |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
For the first part, I need to check for each row, the count of each colors does not exceed certain given number. If all row is pass then that game is possible. Then I need to get the sum of IDs of the game that are possible.
Just like I said before, this problem is easy but I need to read the problem statement multiple times to understand it and then parse the input into data structure that I want to solve the problem.
For the second part, I need to get the maximum count of each color for all row. Then to get the power of that game, I need to multiply all of that maximum count together. Then I need to get the sum of all power of the game.
For this part, it’s a bit easier because I already parse the input and only need to add a little bit of code.
Closing
Finally the post is almost over. I’m successfully write the second post of AoC this year. I hope this is not the last post of this year’s AoC that I wrote.
And here is some day 2 stats.
Oh yeah, today I did not start late. As you can see I spent almost 15 minutes for part one. Then part two is easy breezy. 20 minutes is not bad for me.
Okay that’s it. Now I want to sleep after posting this.