Previous year’s contests are still up. I suggest doing day 1 to 3 of all of them to get a feel for how it all works. The problems start out easy! My “toolkit”

Previous year’s contests are still up. I suggest doing day 1 to 3 of all of them to get a feel for how it all works. The problems start out easy! My “toolkit” is Perl and an Emacs expansion that adds some boilerplate reading text files and stuffing them into a list. Edit here's what's expanded when I type "aocinit" an empty buffer: https://gist.github.com/gustafe/27be34b3c57728f40101a93a95cec4fa https://gist.github.com/gustafe/27be34b3c57728f40101a93a95ce...