It's that magical time of year when CS majors around the world ruin their sleep schedules for the glorious pursuit of [golden stars ★]{.ay}. Thankfully, in my pursuit of graduate school, I'm ahead of the game. My sleep schedule is already ruined.
I know for a fact I won't have as much time for Advent of Code as I'd like this year. With grad school apps being due the 15th and the fall term finishing up, I probably won't have time to complete the daily challenges. I have to make the difficult choice between getting a PhD and collecting [golden stars ★]{.ay}.
Since I'm aware of my time limit, but still want to participate in the challenge for my own self improvement, I figured I'd make a blog post today with my Advent of Code statistics, then see where I am on Christmas.
This year, I'm saying goodbye to Python. It's C only from here on out. On Day 1, I've already done light years better. I went from over an hour last year to six minutes this year. So even if I don't complete more than Day 1, I'm happy.
| Year | Stars | C | Python |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2★ | 2 | |
| 2020 | 31★ | 26 | 7 |
| 2019 | 27★ | 27 | |
| 2018 | 3★ | ||
| 2017 | |||
| 2016 | |||
| 2015 | |||
| Total | 63★ | 28 | 34 |
| Year | Day | Part 1 Time | Rank | Score | Part 2 Time | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 00:03:29 | 1775 | 0 | 00:06:38 | 1159 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 01:04:10 | 6135 | 0 | 01:11:38 | 5832 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 | >24h | 63045 | 0 | >24h | 55723 | 0 |