I was nervous, starting today’s puzzle. I saw last night that it was a “shortest path” problem, and since the path had a defined start and end, it was an “A-star” problem, and that’s what it turned out to be.| Chasing Dings!
Advent of Code, the yearly gauntlet of programming puzzles that Eric Wastl runs each year from December 1 through December 25, is a big event for me. It’s the one time of the year when I can get out of the humdrum of programming for an insurance company and really get to think about problems. Problems like, how many puzzles can I solve in a new programming language before I say “Fuck it, I’ll do it in Python.”| Chasing Dings!
