This repository contains my code solutions for the Advent Of Code challenges [http://www.adventofcode.com].

I don't claim these are the best or most efficient solutions, but I do like some of them :)

If you download the repository to give it a go yourself, you will need to have composer installed [http://getcomposer.org] and run composer install within the 2015-PHP-TDD directory to download and install PHPSpec, which I use for the tests.

Tests can be found in 2015-PHP-TDD/spec/, solutions in 2015-PHP-TDD/src/, my puzzle inputs in 2015-PHP-TDD/res/ and run files to get each solution in 2015-PHP-TDD/run/.

To run all the tests (some are pretty slow because of inefficient code), run bin/phpspec run on the command line in the 2015-PHP-TDD directory. You also just run the tests for a certain day with, eg, bin/phpspec run spec/Day7

I'm going to attempt the 2016 challenges in Clojure, a language I know a very small amount of but really like and would like to get better at. You will need to have Leiningen installed [http://leiningen.org/] if you want to run them yourself.

To get started, change to the 2016-Clojure directory and run

$ lein deps

This will download the project dependencies. To run the code for a particular day, run

$ lein run d ...args

...substituting the day number for d. For example, day 1 takes the input as a file name with the instructions:

$ lein run 1 "resources/day1"

Right, no more excuses - it's about time I learned Python. This ended up being the first year I completed all 50 stars

• hooray!

Decided to use Go this year, but wasn't a fan. I still have a few to finish off so will come back to it.

Kotlin this year - really loved using this language. Loads of functional features, lots of stuff made really elegant for the developer, thumbs up!

Decided to try Rust this year. I can see how it's good for the applications for which it was designed, but I think it's a pretty niche case, and there's a lot of boilerplate / admin / babysitting you have to do for 99% of applications which don't need it. Glad I have given it a go though.

C#, JavaScript, Haskell, Ruby or Scala perhaps?