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The PowerShell Advent of Code

So, Jeremiah Peschka's post on practicing has hooked me into working through this series of word problems. You can use any language to solve the problems. I'll be using PowerShell because I need the exercise and I need to learn how to use Github.

 You can try the Advent of Code yourself here and see my answers so far here.

 I was able to answer the first puzzle with four lines of PowerShell. Yeah!

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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