Day 2 was pretty straightforward, and there isn't all that much I want to say about it, so I'll get straight to the problem.

Part 1

The puzzle gives us an input that consists of rows of , each of which is made up of a list of , which are just numbers.

Work over the past week kept me busy, so I wasn't able to tackle any of the puzzles until this weekend. School and college applications have taken up a lot of my time, giving me less time to spend programming. I had some time free up this winter, though, so AoC will serve as a nice way to get back into things.

I've recently taken to reading Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce in an attempt to introduce myself to the basics of type theory and the like. The book in question is, from what I've found, considered an apt introduction to the aforementioned concepts, and seems to read well from my brief skimming of it thus far. I'll be using this document to consolidate my notes on the content as I read.

Up until recently, I daily drove Fedora on the main machine I use for development. However, I recently decided to wipe my system and make the jump to NixOS.

It took two years and several rewrites, but since you're seeing this, it means I've (finally) gotten my static site generator to a stage in which it's feasibly working, and have deployed my website to the web.

For AP Lit, I had to pick two books by an author and read them, recording my progress and reflecting on the contents along the way.

The author I picked was R.F. Kuang, who wrote and , both of which were incrediby enjoyable to read. I have six entries for each book, made up of summary, and analysis/reflection.

In this series I document my puzzle solutions for Advent of Code 2024.

Advent of Code is a series of themed programming puzzles of increasing difficulty that are released throughout December up until Christmas.