05 -- This Is Only A Test -- J. Spencer Hopkins

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05 -- This Is Only A Test

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Requirements

Tasks

• [x] {S} Estimate all the top-level tasks with T-shirt sizes: S, M, L, XL
• [x] {S} Sort these tasks into the order in which you'll begin them
• [x] {S} Use the Terminal in your computer to:
  • [x] create a branch of your TIY-Assignments repo called feature/05--this-is-only-a-test
  • [x] switch to the new branch
  • [x] Create at least one file and directory as described above in Deliverables.
  • [x] Add and commit your work every hour or at every breakthrough (whichever comes first)
  • [x] Push your commits to Github
  • [x] In Github, open a PR from feature/05--this-is-only-a-test into master
• [x] {M} Re-write card.rb & card_test.rb to
  • [x] Commit as you make make changes/progress.
• [x] End of lab wiki edit (please finish this by 5 so I can use the feedback in shaping plans for tomorrow)
  • [x] Add your thoughts on this assignment to the Assignment Evaluation page.
  • [x] Update Light Bulbs and Things I Don't Get Yet to reflect how you feel at the end of lab.
• [x] {M} Download the Ruby Koans into your repo and work through them up to the end of the about_symbols.rb.
• [ ] {XL} WOLVES
• [ ] {S} End of day wiki edit (please do these as your final tasks)
  • [ ] Add your thoughts on this assignment to the Assignment Evaluation page.
  • [ ] Update Light Bulbs and Things I Don't Get Yet to reflect how you feel at the end of the day.

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Objectives

Learning Objectives

This is more practice than learning. Solidify concepts you've seen already.

Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you will be able to:

• use git in your sleep, which given how much you people rest over the weekend is a good thing
• get tests of built-in methods to pass
• translate English language description of a system into Ruby tests and code

  Deliverables

• A WIP Issue in the class repo titled "05 -- This Is Only A Test -- #{YOUR NAME}" with:
  • checkboxes as below under Requirements
  • estimates for the top-level checkboxes
• Update your TIY-Assignments repo wiki:
  • Add your thoughts on today's assignment to the existing reflections page
  • Edit the lightbulbs and struggles pages * A branch in your TIY-Assignments repo named feature/05--This-Is-Only-A-Test that contains:
  • a series of commits after each milestone or hour (whichever comes first), with an informative commit message for each
  • A folder called code/ that contains:
  • wolfpack_test.rb
  • wolf_test.rb
  • wolfpack.rb
  • wolf.rb
  • card.rb
  • card_test.rb
  • The wolf and wolfpack should be capable of all the behaviors I outline in the description.
• A Pull Request (PR) in your TIY-Assignments repo:
  • from the branch feature/05--this-is-only-a-test (head)
  • into the master branch (base)
  • description that links to your WIP Issue in the class repo using Github Flavored Markdown
  • two :thumbsup: comments from peers who have reviewed your work
• Comments on your WIP Issue for the following:
  • a link to your wiki (absolute URL)
  • a link to your PR using Github Flavored Markdown

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Description

We need some repetitions on the basics, and the basics are everything we've done so far.

Go to Ruby Koans and download the koans. Follow the instructions the site gives you, and work through the end of the _aboutsymbols.rb file.

That will give you practice on test assertions and method calls.

I also want you to delete your card.rb and card_test.rb files and rewrite them, incrementally, committing with good messages as you go. This to exercise the cycle of making a test-seeing it's broken-writing code to fix it. Don't try to write both files from memory in one fell swoop.

To get practice on being a developer, you'll take my English-language requirements to model a wolfpack and go through the same iterative cycle. This is the hardest part of the homework. I think I'd do this with an instructor and TA in the room.

The Wolfpack

A wolfpack is a group of wolves. A wolf has a name and an age. The leader of the wolfpack is the oldest wolf. All wolves are submissive to older wolves and dominant over younger wolves.

A wolf can join a pack. If a wolf joins a pack and becomes leader, the pack throws out the former leader.

A wolf can howl. It howls louder if it's older than 3 than if it's younger. If you call out the name of a wolf to its pack, that wolf will howl.

A wolfpack can take down different sized things depending on how big it is.

• A pack of 2 wolves can hunt a gazelle.
• A pack of 5 wolves can get a water buffalo.
• A pack of 30 wolves can eat a rhinoceros.

I used a lot of synonyms there in the hunting section. You don't need methods for all of them.

End of Wolfpack

It would be good if you would take what you learn from the above and use it to start on a Deck model for blackjack, because we're not done with blackjack. Ohhhhh, no.

Also and as always, you'll practice using git, and branching, committing, pushing, using GitHub to make an issue and a pull request, link to the pull request from the issue, etc.

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