Advent of Code

About Advent of Code Advent of Code is an annual event that publishes fun, holiday-themed puzzles every day from December 1 to December 25. Thousands of people each year take part in Advent of Code.  We at JetBrains and on the Kotlin team have been taking part in Advent of Code for several years now. As a proud sponsor of Advent of Code 2021, we encouraged our community to join us in solving

Advent Of Code is currently ongoing and many people all over the world are taking part. We’d like to share some tips and tricks for solving the puzzles in Kotlin – we hope you find some of them helpful! Feel free to add your favorite tips or thoughts in the comments!. If you’re solving the puzzles in Kotlin, don’t forget to add the aoc-2021-in-kotlin topic to your repo to take part in our giveaway

The nautical advent-ure continues with the third day of AOC 2021, which we will, of course, once more solve in Kotlin! This time, it will involve wrangling binary numbers in all sorts of ways. Check out the solution and a detailed explanation on YouTube, or follow along as we explain our solution in this blog post! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2PTnnOi8w Solving part 1 We’re on main

In this post, I’m going to walk you through my solution to the Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 task. Of course, I used Kotlin to solve it!  https://www.youtube.com/embed/76IzmtOyiHw The input for the task is a text file, where each line is a number that represents a measurement of the depth of the seafloor. The task is to count the number of measurements where the depth increases. For examp

It’s that magical time of the year! Supermarkets are stocking cookies, the smell of cinnamon and roasted chestnuts fills the air, and maybe you’ll even see some snowflakes fall in front of your window. It can only mean one thing: Advent of Code is coming! It starts December 1, when the first of twenty-five coding puzzles is unlocked. From then on, a new coding challenge comes out each day. Whe