Hello reader, I am Sanjaay, also known as Whippingdot, who likes coding. I am a kid who is still learning, but eh I try to do challenges too. This is my third year of AOC. I do the AOC challenges in C++ by the way! (copied from last year lol)
Two years ago I had teamed up with a homeschooled kid named CSharpIsGud. He was a great friend but as out conversations slowly dwindled and stopped I wasn't able to get in contact with him again. I tried contacting him last year to work with him again but I could not contact him properly. Hopefully in a few years I meet him online again and am able to work on another AOC with him as he was a great friend.
This year though I am working with a real life friend of mine on this. We are competing to see who can finish more days, him on JS and me on C++. This man is using GitHub for the first time so he might be a little rusty and this is his first actual coding problem competition I think but I know he is amazing at coding and I can't wait to see who can finish more days. AOC always makes my December (even though i gives me stress and depress-) so I hope this year is the same!
Last year I had ideas for Day 4 that my dad gave me and I realized from the bat my main problem was with handling 2D arrays. Arrays in C++ are just weird and making Vectors 2D is a pain so until I learn proper methods of 2D List handling I will struggle this year too. Let us hope I figure it out!
There is now a bash script added called 'Compile.sh'. You can run this script using bash Compile.sh after going into the 'aoc' folder of 2021. You can continuously change the name of the file being run in that bash file to run different files. I don't use it myself and haven't tested it much but if you want you can try it out and run my code. I do think it is easier if you just import both the header file ('aoc.h') and the C++ file and run them instead of going through a big head-ache...
Wish me luck - I'll need it
- By Whippingdot not Saiga4