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I always forget to copy the solutions file to the next day before writing my solution. If the template would be Day25.kt, I'd be remebered every day, since filling in Day25.kt can only be done on the last day.

Hi Team,

Thank you for creating this template!

Unfortunately, I forked the template rather than created a new project from it and submitted a solution PR to the repo. Old habits die hard. Can you please delete the PR? #8

Thanks!

Thanks for making the template! However it does not appear to run when using Android Studio Arctic Fox, although IntelliJ CE does work.

Can you help me get it working in that IDE?

Hi, I have downloaded your template and I am struggling about how to run the Day01.kt file from command line.

Gradle build -> gradle run does not work since there is no a run task in the build script.

Thank you in advance for your help.

The link in the readme after the github action template-cleanup has run is https://github.com/kotlinhandson/advent-of-code-kotlin-template but should be https://github.com/kotlin-hands-on/advent-of-code-kotlin-template.

Thanks for providing this template!

Noticed this tweet from the AoC maintainer while I was setting up: https://twitter.com/ericwastl/status/1465805354214830081

"In general I ask people not to publish their inputs, just to make it harder for someone to try to steal the whole site."

This template encourages putting in actual inputs into the DayNN.txt files and committing them to the repository. Perhaps the input files should be added to .gitignore and/or moved to a separate folder to discourage this from happening (at least for future uses of this template).

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Originally posted by @07505580781 in #32

The template internally adds .txt extension to the input file names. This leads to confusion for me as a linux user because I used to use input files without any extension.

Here is my workflow:

1. I add input files for new problems with no extension to my AoC project
2. Then I'm adding up some code
3. Running it to check whether it works or not
4. Getting an error message that my input file doesn't actually exist
5. I use refactor->rename to add the .txt extension and it fails again, because now the template is expecting my input file name to be filename.txt.txt :)
6. Finally I go to my refactored code and remove the '.txt' extension and it finally starts to work :)

I propose to avoid adding the .txt extension to all input files and leave it to the user. This won't make code any worse but will help to avoid confusion for a plenty of users.

The README seems to imply that there should be a green play button next to it. When using Fleet, that does not seem to exist. Is that something that should be there, something that should be written in a custom fleet run.json, or what should one have to do in order to not have to use IntelliJ for this?

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FILE: README.md
CONTEXT: "...a programming puzzles contest is published every day for twenty-four days."
SUGGESTED CHANGE: Advent of Code is 25 days long, may want to replace twenty-four with twenty-five.

From adventofcode.com/2023/day1 (most recent event):

"You've been doing this long enough to know that to restore snow operations, you need to check all fifty stars by December 25th.

Collect stars by solving puzzles. Two puzzles will be made available on each day in the Advent calendar; the second puzzle is unlocked when you complete the first. Each puzzle grants one star. Good luck!"

From adventofcode.com/2015/day1 (first event):

"Santa was hoping for a white Christmas, but his weather machine's "snow" function is powered by stars, and he's fresh out! To save Christmas, he needs you to collect fifty stars by December 25th.

Collect stars by helping Santa solve puzzles. Two puzzles will be made available on each day in the Advent calendar; the second puzzle is unlocked when you complete the first. Each puzzle grants one star. Good luck!"