- Who created the thread? Me!
That feels like pseudo code, or some pseudocode-like language. Totally ok, as long as it's easy to understand. - Yeah, that'd be useful.
Python without Indentation
Is that like a separate language or just something you made up?
Something I made up.
How is it going for day 1?
Does anyone have a combinatorics library for Snap?
It's live now 
Remember - PLEASE don't publish solutions/spoilers in plain view - hide them using the Hide details or just post a link to your project
#TopTip Make sure your code deals with all the examples correctly before running it on the big input.
Not actually started on it yet - I'll have to google "combinatroics" to find out what than means
The branch of mathematics that studies the ways stuff can be arranged (said very brutally)
I've started
No big spoiler as its just my first block
Start
Part 1 took 6s for me but part 2 about ten minutes (albeit while in videolessons)
I didn't warp or anything - just a loop inside a loop
I got my part 2 to run in 1.5 seconds while in turbo mode
Mine took ages - I had to leave it running overnight!
I think I'd better improve it before I start puzzle two today!
Puzzle 1 Part 2
Nice exercise just doing the input parsing
Puzzel 2 Part 1 input parsing
When I do it in Snap! I'll miss them regexes
Is a "regex" more than a standard regular expression? Because the latter are equivalent to finite state machines, and an FSM can't solve this problem in general, only up to a fixed depth.
I've never got my head around regex parsing.
Its very powerful but so obtuse
It doesn't solve the whole problem, it just is an easy way to extract input that is in the form number-number letter: word
js regex for that
/(\d+)-(\d+) (\w): (\w+)/
Some things are really hard but I managed to understand the basics pretty easily