Advent of Code Framework

C# framework to interactively bootstrap Advent of Code solutions.

Getting Started

The entry point to the framework is the AdventOfCodeRunner. From here you can either run in a full interactive mode via AdventOfCodeRunner.Run or specify fixed options via methods like AdventOfCodeRunner.Solve. Solutions setup as in Solutions will be picked up automatically, but the runner will guide through this.

Solutions

A Solution represents the logic to solve both problems for a particular puzzle day. Solutions should both implement ISolution and be attributed with SolutionAttribute as follows:

[Solution(Day = 1)] internal class SampleSolution : ISolution { /// <inheritdoc /> public string SolveProblem1(ProblemInput input, ISolutionLogger logger) { ... } /// <inheritdoc /> public string SolveProblem2(ProblemInput input, ISolutionLogger logger) { ... } }

Inputs and Outputs

When a problem is run for the first time, input and output files need to be provided. These are prompted for via Notepad by the runner, and the user is expected to save and exit Notepad to continue (similar to command line Git). Initially required files are the input and output of the sample part of the problem, plus the input of the main problem (the file title will indicate the data expected).