See examples of this template being used in my previous Advent of Code projects.

• advent-of-code-2019 was the year that establish the format of the codebase.
• advent-of-code-2020 improved it a little bit.
• advent-of-code-2021 another usage...
• advent-of-code-2022 another usage...
• advent-of-code-2023 another usage...
• advent-of-code-2024 another usage...

Also see advent-of-code-libs where a lot of common code has been extracted. It's compiled in this template via Gradle and is pulled from the GitHub packages registry.

Excerpt from the Advent of Code website;

"Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets
and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a
speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or
to challenge each other."

• Getting Started
• The Days
  • The Most Fun
  • The Most Interesting
  • The Most Challenging
• Answer Table
• Advent Calendar

Simply clone or download the repository into your local environment and import it as a Gradle project in your IDE. Running Solutions.kt will run the parts from all the completed days, reporting all the answers and runtimes in the console.

• Don't forget to change the rootProject.name property in settings.gradle.kts to advent-of-code-{year}
• Also make sure the run config XML files in the .run directory have the name attribute in the <module name="advent-of-code-template.solutions.main" /> tag updated to match the current years name.
• Also update the {YEAR} in the heading anchor at the top and remove this Getting Started section from here and the table of contents.

The .run directory contains XML configuration files from IntelliJ. Included are configurations for running the unit tests in the common, implementation and solutions Gradle sub-projects as well as for each specific day.

Average Execution Time: 646ms
Total Execution Time: 15s 441ms
i7 5820K - OpenJDK 14.0.2 - Ubuntu 20.04

A .GIF of the complete animated calendar goes here once completed.