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Higher or lower #27

Closed rrees closed 4 years ago

rrees commented 7 years ago

A simple solitaire game or classic gameshow staple depending on your vintage.

This is a card game like the 21s problem but starts off with a much simpler situation and then asks the implementation to be increasing parametrised which should reward good initial approaches.

I thought this was too simple but I've seen people struggling with the game loop in a way I hadn't expected.

jennysivapalan commented 7 years ago

Thanks @rrees, agreed it sounds simple but I haven't tried it. I'll see if we can get a few volunteers to try this (and https://github.com/guardian/pairing-tests/pull/26) as pairs and work out if it's suitable or needs a few tweaks.

jennysivapalan commented 7 years ago

@rrees - @nicl and I tried it last week. We found we were able to complete it quite quickly and didn't find the logic too challenging. We will have a think too but we were wondering if you had any suggestions to make the the extensions more challenging? I can email over the gist of our attempt, let me know if you would like it.

rrees commented 7 years ago

The gist would be handy. I've done this with mostly inexperienced programmers so I haven't seen anyone complete it yet! How much time did you have left when you finished it?

jennysivapalan commented 7 years ago

@rrees Sent you an email of the gist. It took us ~30 minutes, but given your experience we may have mis-read the notes. Let me know and we can also try and get a couple of other people to try it.

rrees commented 7 years ago

I've put comments on the Gist. Your solution is pretty solid but as per the gist I wonder what more you would want to see if someone provided the code you created.