Day 9 - Explosions in Cyberspace [Revival of Code 2023 - Advent of Code 2016]
Python Discord is doing an event called Revival of Code, where we work through the 2016 Advent of Code, one challenge every two days. The day 9 challenge, Explosions in Cyberspace, I'm given a string where I need to find markers of the pattern `(AxB)`, and use that to read the next A characters and repeat it B times. In part one, I'll take markers inside the next A characters as just text. In part two, I'll have to recursively expand those first.
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[00:00] Introduction
[00:14] Challenge Part 1
[01:20] genday.sh / input
[02:06] Part 1 tests
[03:27] Parsing into deque
[03:57] Part 1 solve
[07:16] Part 1 tests solve, submitting solution
[07:47] Challenge Part 2
[09:06] Tests for Part 2
[10:16] Refactoring part 1 into decompress
[11:30] Adding part 2
[16:20] Debugging issues
[16:50] Tests pass, part 2 doesn't return
[18:32] Debugging issues related to passing data twice
[19:45] Identified issue
[21:25] Fixing tests after refactor
[22:08] Conclusion
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