Discussion thread for day 17 of the Advent of Code : https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/17
Main issue with today was understanding the example... and I refused to do iterative as wanted to debug easier
And the inner macro:
@jdunkerley79 the example was pretty horrid. I think it could have been much more clear without giving too much away.
Here is my solve. I took the iterative route for both parts and it ended up being surprisingly similar to my day 11 solution.
part 1 iterative
part 2 iterative
Day17!
I almost gave up when I couldn't understand the example...It took much time. I agree with @jdunkerley79 on this point.
Today's my solution is Iterative route.
Part1 Iterative Macro
Finally, my challenge worked.
AS anonymous user #1105310
https://github.com/AkimasaKajitani/AdventOfCode
I concur that the example was difficult to understand (at least for me, it took me a while to realize that there were rows/columns disappearing).
I went with an iterative, it required minor changes to incorporate the "w" from the second part.
I wondered if it would be any faster to precompute the whole board since I thought so many generate rows couldn't be that good
I went for slow and simple with an iterative macro. I just computed entire board plus an extra space or 2. Lots of copying and pasting.
