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aochelpers

A set of structs and associated methods that cover common use=cases when solving Advent Of Code problems

16 releases

0.6.2 Nov 6, 2024
0.6.1 Dec 27, 2023
0.5.0 Dec 17, 2023
0.4.1 Dec 16, 2023
0.1.1 Nov 19, 2023

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Advent Of Code Helpers

Various structs and associated methods which may come in useful when solving Advent of Code challenges:

  • Direction - Compass Direction
  • Coordinate - Standard 2D Cartesian Coordinate
  • Particle - Location with compass direction
  • Rectangle - Pair of Coordinates describing a rectangle
  • Coordinate3d - Standard 3D Cartesian Coordinate
  • Cuboid - Pair of 3D Coordinates describing a cuboid
  • ScoredItem - Used with std::collections::BinaryHeap to implement A* or Djikstra's algorithms
  • get_daily_input() - fetches and caches the input for a given day's puzzle
  • parse_number_grid<T>() - converts a grid of 0-9 digits to a HashMap<Coordinate, T>

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~5–15MB
~199K SLoC