Today’s exercise was plane-tickets where we learned about yield/generators. My solution was more primitive than the community solutions. I am getting annoyed at the code sniffer. I see nothing wrong with a variable named i as a loop counter, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More solution fixes. python\series. They wanted me to break out some of the fail tests and give them different error messages. python\meetup. They didn’t like one of my error messages python\hamming – wasn’t broken just had a solution published that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to start with python exercises that used to pass but no longer do. Then moved on to ruby. Then C#. Then found I was missing some solutions that are hiding in Latest Test Status = Failed but don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Only did the ledger exercise which was the second and final code refactor of the track. It did take me over an hour so I won’t feel bad. I thought I got it into decent shape but the community solution[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Markdown which is refactoring some poorly written Markdown parsing code while still passing all the test cases. I think I spent most of today just doing nothing hoping to get better soon. Someone did much better than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Parallel Letter Frequency. I could have used a lot more explanation on this one. I think they lied. You do need to put the response into a promise, but there is nothing that requires you use a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I was too sick to do anything beyond the exercism.org exercise. Today is the same thing, but yesterdays exercise was just fine, this one was a horrible slog. I should have looked if I had a solution on another[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Prism. It was recently added to the C# track. Judging by the fact that I don’t see the regulars in the community solutions it was added to the Javascript track at the same time. I was lazy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just ten days left! I am 90% done. Today’s exercise was go-counting. In go-counting you figure out who owns what territory in a game of go. Basically you need the flood fill algorithm with just the cardinal directions North, South,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was REST API which was to build up a fake rest API for IOUs between friends. Kind of spooky since I am working on one for the project part too. Fussy and long. Mine is twice as long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…