Advent of Code 2019 - Day 1

I used Advent of Code last year to learn some Elixir. Since I haven’t used Elixir much this year, I am using AOC 2019 as an opportunity to refresh my Elixir skills.

Here is my solution for my solution for Day 1.

There is room for improvement, eg by using Enum instead of Stream, and probably even more by doing manual recursion, but as I’m in the area of 0.05ms for part 2, I’ll just leave it as is.

That‘s a cool Boilerplate you got there. Gonna borrow it next time

I will try something new this year, will live stream solving the challenges on Twitch. Today the stream starts at 2pm CET (in 1 hour 15 mins), here’s my channel Will be using Elixir, and maybe Rust for some challenges.

Last year’s solutions are here.

P.S. First day solution is here. Forgot to switch on “save past broadcasts”, will not forget next time Next stream will be on Tuesday at 7pm CET.

Here’s my take.

Hey guys,

here’s mine github repo for this aoc2019: alvises/aoc2019

And day1.ex

https://github.com/alvises/aoc2019/blob/master/lib/aoc2019/day1.ex

I’m possibly going to have to refactor my repository structure but in any event my solution is here.

The aoc package is going to hold common code such as functions to load data from files.

Each day will be its own application and, compared to most I imagine, verbose. I like adding tests and some documentation.

I am so pleased that Saša is doing this again this year. His code tends to be incredibly compact and contains some lovely approaches which I’d not have thought about. Today I’ll be learning more about streams from him.

I did mine in iex and translated to code after the fact: https://github.com/keathley/advent_of_code_2019/blob/master/day1.exs.

My own stab at Day 1:

https://github.com/patrickcarver/advent-of-code-2019-elixir/blob/master/day01/lib/day01.ex