🇸🇰 Advent of Code 2023 Python solutions 🇬🇧

This is a repository of my attempts at solving coding challenges by Eric Wastl distributed as Advent of Code.

The comments in the following table contain spoilers!

Symbol	Meaning
✅	Solved
❎	Solved with minor help
🔶	Solved with major help
❌	Have not solved yet

Day	Part 1	Part 2	Comments
1	✅	✅
2	✅	✅
3	✅	✅
4	✅	❎	Had trouble implementing the recursive solution, but I should have just tried iteration since the steps never go back
5	✅	❎	Spent hours failing to set up the final loop only to find out that I was appending to the wrong list, but everything else was correct 😓
6	✅	✅
7	✅	✅
8	✅	🔶	I was trying to come up with a solution that accounts for all sorts of inputs, only to then be told that the input is special and none of that matters 😓
9	✅	✅
10	✅	🔶	Tried several approaches, filling outside of loop didn't work for me but calculating polygon area did
11	✅	✅
12	❌	❌	I have no experience with dynamic programming
13	✅	❌	Part 2 needs a bit of debugging
14	✅	🔶	Part 1 has been the easiest so far, part 2 took me a while to debug
15	✅	❎
16	✅	✅
17	❌	❌	I would have to learn Dijkstra's algorithm first
18	✅	✅
19	✅	❌	Stopped here to enjoy Christmas, might come back to this later
20	❌	❌
21	❎	🔶