Advent of Code 2022 - Day 00 - Getting Ready for the Big First Day!
Why reinvent the wheel for every single problem you solve during the Advent of Code? There's got to be a better way! And there is! This video will show you how to set up a simple Python template for processing data files into a simple list of lists. Of course not all data files will be this straight-forward, but it's a great start to another great month of competition!
Bradley Sward is currently an Associate Professor at the College of DuPage in suburban Chicago, Illinois. He has earned a Masters degree in Software Engineering from DePaul University, a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Springfield, and two Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Molecular Biology from Benedictine University. Prior to teaching, Bradley worked for five years in the field of casino gaming on a variety of video slot machine and poker games. The Village People have been permanently etched into his brain.