Advent of Code 2023

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Advent of Code is a yearly event where a new programming puzzle is released every day from December 1st to December 25th. The puzzles consist of 2 parts and are designed to be fun, challenging, and educational. People from all over the world participate in Advent of Code using a wide variety of programming languages and skill levels.

I will be using TypeScript to solve the puzzles as this is my strongest language and I have never completed advent of code before.

In future years I would consider another language as a learning opportunity.

My approach to each question is fairly simple, I will take the input and use a string literal to store then input against a variable. I will then apply some parsing to extract the input data into a more usable format. I will then create a function for each of part 1 and part 2.

In some cases I will write tests but the purpose of these is to help with debugging.

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