Four new exercises

[kapitaali]

Hi,

please find four new COBOL track exercises: binary-search, protein-translation, secret-handshake, space-age

Let's hope I have all the needed information added in config files.

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[axtens]

I've re-opened the PR. I'd forgotten about the "auto-close". Let's have a look at your work

[axtens]

Are you writing these on a Windows, Linux or Mac? The reason I ask is that ordinarily one would not expect to see the files in the bin folder appearing as part of the PR and that suggests that CRLF line ends are being encountered

[axtens]

For binary-search was the any particular reason why you chose to work out a binary search rather than use the SEARCH ALL command? There's nothing in the instructions for the task that command you to work it long-hand.

[axtens]

In protein-translation and likely in others, it would be better use SPACE or SPACES rather than " ". It's more explicit and doesn't leave the student wondering how many spaces are between the two double quotes.

[axtens]

bugmagnet@bugmagnet-wasta:~/Dropbox/Projects/exercism-tracks/cobol$ bash bin/test protein-translation
Cobolcheck not found, try to fetch it.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.689719Z INF001: Attempting to load config from config.properties.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.689899Z INF002: Loaded config successfully from config.properties.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.689920Z INF003: Cobol-Check starting
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.689932Z INF005: Log level is INFO.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.689944Z INF006: Configuration settings: production.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.690397Z INF014: Error log for the test suite parser is set to: /home/bugmagnet/Dropbox/Projects/exercism-tracks/cobol/exercises/practice/protein-translation/ParserErrorLog.txt.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.691161Z INF013: Output for generated COBOL test program is set to: /home/bugmagnet/Dropbox/Projects/exercism-tracks/cobol/exercises/practice/protein-translation/test.cob.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.730348Z INF012: Successfully generated COBOL test program for src/protein-translation.
CobolCheck: INFO 2024-04-14T10:15:34.731032Z INF004: Cobol-Check terminating: 0
COMPILE AND RUN TEST
test.cob: in paragraph 'UT-AFTER-EACH':
test.cob:791: error: syntax error, unexpected PERFORM
  789 |             EVALUATE UT-TEST-SUITE-NAME..
  790 |                 WHEN..
  791 >            PERFORM UT-AFTER-EACH-BRANCH-0..
  792 |             END-EVALUATE..
  793 |            ...
protein-translation: proof solution did not pass the tests

[axtens]

Please do not use GOBACK. It confuses COBOLCHECK, the unit test tool.

[axtens]

Also configlet is complaining. You should check your submissions with configlet before creating a PR. In this case configlet says,

The `source_url` value is the empty string, but it must be a valid URL:
/home/runner/work/cobol/cobol/exercises/practice/protein-translation/.meta/config.json

[axtens]

So @kapitaali , how about you delete this PR, fix things up and submit each exercise as a separate PR.

[kapitaali]

Closed, doing it 1by1

[kapitaali]

For binary-search was the any particular reason why you chose to work out a binary search rather than use the SEARCH ALL command? There's nothing in the instructions for the task that command you to work it long-hand.

It says in the blurb, "Implement a binary search algorithm". If it's not explicit enough that one should implement it oneself, I can add it to the instructions.

[kapitaali]

Are you writing these on a Windows, Linux or Mac? The reason I ask is that ordinarily one would not expect to see the files in the bin folder appearing as part of the PR and that suggests that CRLF line ends are being encountered

Linux, Pop_OS is Ubuntu