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title: "Advent of Code"
subtitle: "Ella Kaye's solutions and notes."
#description: "Ella Kaye's solutions and notes for Advent of Code."
---

[Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com) is a series of increasingly difficult programming challenges, 
released daily each year throughout December in the run-up to Christmas.

This website is created from the 
[EllaKaye/advent-of-code](https://github.com/EllaKaye/advent-of-code) repository.
I use it to keep a record of my solutions and make notes about what I learn along the way. 
It is built with [Quarto](https://quarto.org) and supported by my [**aochelpers**](https://ellakaye.github.io/aochelpers) package. 
**aochelpers** provides functions to create the posts and listings pages, 
to download and read in the puzzle inputs, and, in time, 
I plan to add other functions that are useful for solving the puzzles
and interacting with the Advent of Code website.

If you would like a similar site to this, you can use the template at [EllaKaye/advent-of-code-website-template](https://github.com/EllaKaye/advent-of-code-website-template). Websites from this template work hand-in-hand with **aochelpers**.

The idea for this site came from seeing [Emil Hvitfeldt's version](https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/rstats-adventofcode/) and **aochelpers** adapts and builds upon code from David Robinson's [adventdrob](https://github.com/dgrtwo/adventdrob) package.

The styling is based on my [personal site](https://ellakaye.co.uk).