Hi Team,

Thank you for creating this template!

Unfortunately, I forked the template rather than created a new project from it and submitted a solution PR to the repo. Old habits die hard. Can you please delete the PR? https://github.com/kotlin-hands-on/advent-of-code-kotlin-template/pull/8

Thanks!

I think this is an even better way to print stuff.

For example

println(part1(input))
println(part2(input))

will become

part1(input).println()
part2(input).println()

If you guys like it then I will add other print function variants...

Thanks for making the template! However it does not appear to run when using Android Studio Arctic Fox, although IntelliJ CE does work.

Can you help me get it working in that IDE?

2021 Day 1 question compares numbers. Without converting it to ints, you get a wrong answer. Added a toInts() function for List<String> which will be useful in other questions too.

Thanks for providing this template!

Noticed this tweet from the AoC maintainer while I was setting up: https://twitter.com/ericwastl/status/1465805354214830081

"In general I ask people not to publish their inputs, just to make it harder for someone to try to steal the whole site."

This template encourages putting in actual inputs into the DayNN.txt files and committing them to the repository. Perhaps the input files should be added to .gitignore and/or moved to a separate folder to discourage this from happening (at least for future uses of this template).

The link in the readme after the github action template-cleanup has run is https://github.com/kotlinhandson/advent-of-code-kotlin-template but should be https://github.com/kotlin-hands-on/advent-of-code-kotlin-template.

I'm a little bit lazy and I don't want to copy paste + edit the code of the previous day myself so I wrote this simple gradle task 😅 Thought we might want to integrate it to the template repo !

I always forget to copy the solutions file to the next day before writing my solution. If the template would be Day25.kt, I'd be remebered every day, since filling in Day25.kt can only be done on the last day.

The template internally adds .txt extension to the input file names. This leads to confusion for me as a linux user because I used to use input files without any extension.

Here is my workflow:

1. I add input files for new problems with no extension to my AoC project
2. Then I'm adding up some code
3. Running it to check whether it works or not
4. Getting an error message that my input file doesn't actually exist
5. I use refactor->rename to add the .txt extension and it fails again, because now the template is expecting my input file name to be filename.txt.txt :)
6. Finally I go to my refactored code and remove the '.txt' extension and it finally starts to work :)

I propose to avoid adding the .txt extension to all input files and leave it to the user. This won't make code any worse but will help to avoid confusion for a plenty of users.