MonkeyAOC

I've set myself the challenge of solving some 2022 Advent of Code problems on my Garmin Forerunner 235 with an App written in Monkey C. These are my results.

Check out the Youtube Playlist to see the watch in action.

Goals

• Solve day 1 part 1
• Solve day 1 (both parts)
• Solve more than one day
• Solve all days (Seems fairly impossible)

Solved Days

Day     1234567
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Part 1: *******
Part 2: *******

Dev Setup

To anyone who wants to contribute or use this as a template:

The bin folder is gitignored. I don't know if the monkeyc compiler complains when it's not there.

To download the input you need an access token. Here is how to get it. This is stored in strings/accesstoken.xml which should look something like this:

<strings>
    <string id="Token">asdfasdf12341234</string>
</strings>

Learnings to keep in mind

• substring: if the endindex is greater than the length of the string if behaves as if endindex would bave been the length of the string.
• Strings of length 1 and Chars are not the same. The distinction is ' for chars and " for strings.
• It's not possible to use negative indices with arrays (like array[-1]), however this can be used with array.slice() from CIQ version 1.3 (but not with String.substring())
• String.toCharArray() makes it about 5x larger in memory
• Booleans seem to be completely separated from all other types. Nothing can be casted to a bool.
• With Strings always use hashCode and equals