Advent of Code

Motivation

I started Advent of Code because I had a little motivational drop while doing the last part of the Meta Front End Certificate on Coursera. Since AoC goes back all the way to 2015, I figured it would keep me busy for a while and give me a nice challenge.

Cool Tricks I found

To check how often a string or character appears in a given string, I stumbled upon a nice simple way to do this in JavaScript

let target = "ab";
let text = "jlksdfabjsöldjfösdabkdsjfösdlfjab";
let count = text.split(target).length -1;

This spilts the string in x peaces when it removes the searched for string. If found once, there will be two new strings, therefore the -1

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