WARNING: SPOILERS

Despite being swamped with work (like many of us are) I think it's important to stay sharp, so this year I'll be participating, however much I can, in Advent of Code . I'll level with you all that I probably won't do every problem, but here is day one:

The first day is a two part problem:

1. Given an unordered list of integers, find the two integers that add up to 2020 and return their product.

2. Given the same list, find the 3 integers that add up to 2020 and return their product.

I decided to sort the list to provide a faster binary search. This is my C# solution, which is not my main language so it was a great opportunity to dust off my skills:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
namespace advent_of_code_2020
{
    class Day1
    {
        public int TargetNumber = 2020;

        public Day1()
        {
            PuzzleInput.Sort();
        }

        public void solve()
        {
            part1();
            part2();
        }

        protected void part1()
        {
            foreach (int item in PuzzleInput)
            {
                var diff = TargetNumber - item;
                if (PuzzleInput.BinarySearch(diff) > -1)
                {
                    var answer = item * diff;
                    Console.WriteLine(answer.ToString());
                }
            }
        }

        protected void part2()
        {
            foreach(int item in PuzzleInput)
            {
                foreach (int subItem in PuzzleInput)
                {
                    var diff = TargetNumber - (item + subItem);

                    if (PuzzleInput.BinarySearch(diff) > -1)
                    {
                        var answer = (diff * item) * subItem;
                        Console.WriteLine(answer.ToString());
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        public List<int> PuzzleInput = new List<int> {  ... };
    }
}

If you're curious, you can follow along in this repo: github.com/christopherarter/advent-of-code-..

Please, drop me a comment with a link to your repo, too! 👇