AdventOfCodeTemplate

A sample template for Rust solutions to any one year of Advent of Code.

Adapted by Simon Castle from a previous template by Chris Paterson.

How to Use

1. Set up your Rust environment
2. Clone this template (git clone https://github.com/CastleQuirm/AdventOfCodeTemplate.git)
3. Test you can run the code, using the Day 00 example.
   • In the terminal, go to the directory you've cloned the repo into (the directory containing this README.md file)
   • Run cargo run 0
     • This should show some build output (the first time this is run), followed by

     Day 0

     Part 1: 5971

     Part 2: 1155077

     0.024ms (exact time may vary) ----------

   • Run cargo test 00
     • This should show some build output (the first time this is run), followed by

     running 3 tests

     test day00::tests::check_day00_both_case1 ... ok

     test day00::tests::check_day00_part1_case1 ... ok

     test day00::tests::check_day00_part2_case1 ... ok

     test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 75 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

4. Start implementing solutions!
   • Copy and paste your input for the day (e.g. 2020 Day 1's input) into the matching numbered file in the inputs directory
   • Implement the solution in the matching numbered dayXX.rs file in src
     • Run the program using cargo run (with the day number to run just that one day, rather than all of 1-25). Add --release to perform a release build for a faster run!
   • (Optional) Add examples from the puzzle statement into tests in the same file.
     • Run the tests using cargo test (with the day number to run just the appropriate tests, rather than the tests for every day).
5. Push to your own repo.