Mentoring session request after 8th August

[edzhelyov]

Hello,

I want to apply for mentoring session and discuss the solutions to the two problems I've submitted: 'Turtle tracks' and 'Wired Up'.

I'm interested in the design of the solutions and the TDD approach about them. I want to discuss the cohesion and the coupling and what test should be written to ensure working code and good design.

For the 'Turtle' problem I would like to discuss how one would implement the part that parses the input file and create/execute the corresponding commands. What logic will you put into the Turtle object and in the Grid one and how they are supposed to communicate without tight coupling ? Should the turtle knows about it's coordinates ?

Some interesting question for the 'Wired Up' problem are:

• What algorithm can be used for the input parsing ?
• How will you implement the parsing code, so it can be extended and maintained ?
• How will you implement the different modules, so that you can easily switch between parsing implementation if possible ?

Because I didn't have much time for this puzzle I have parts that can be improved, like replacing the case/if statements with polymorphism, improving the naming of the parsing methods. Again I'm curious how would you approach testing and how would you implement some form of logging into the code, so you can later inspect what is going on when you run it on complex inputs, which I had to do for the complex one and it's really frustrating experience.

I'm from Sofia, Bulgaria and this is +3 UTC (Because of Daylight saving time). I will be on vacation until 8th of August, so we can arrange meeting after that date and between 16 UTC and 19 UTC every day.

In the end I want to say thanks to all the folks who are behind the Ruby Mendicant University, you are great!

P.S I can put the code into Github if you need

[semmons99]

Sounds good. We'll work on pairing you up with a mentor.

[ignacy]

Hi Evgeni,

I'm on vacation myself till 9th of August, and I would be happy to meet with you after that date. How does 19 UTC on 10th of August sound?

[edzhelyov]

@ignacy, sounds good. Lets arrange it for 19 UTC on 10th of August, I'll post here to confirm on 9th.

Have a great holiday!

[ignacy]

Great, I'm looking forward to our session. Best of luck.

[edzhelyov]

Hey @ignacy, I'm available for tomorrow, waiting for your confirmation.

[ignacy]

Hi @edzhelyov, sorry for a late response but I got from my vacation a bit later then planned, and unfortunately I got back sick. I have to take antibiotics and anty alergic meds which makes my head dizzy, and it would make this session very difficult for me. I will ask someone to take this session instead of me, but I'm affraid it will have to be rescheduled. I'm very sorry for the inconvinience.

[edzhelyov]

It's sad that you got sick after a vacation :/ Wish you quick recovery!

[madebydna]

Hi @edzhelyov,

I would like to schedule the session with you. The problem is that I'm in a timezone UTC - 4 and I was wondering whether your availability changes on the weekend, so that we can schedule the session a little earlier? Any start time up to UTC 1400/1500 would work for me.

Let me know whether you have any flexibility in your schedule?

Thanks,

Andrea

[edzhelyov]

Hi, I won't be available for the weekend, but we can schedule something for tomorrow, between 0900-1300 UTC. I have some meetings after work until the end of the week and if you can't tomorrow let me know when you are available next week.

[madebydna]

Tomorrow would work for me, but next week is also wide open. If we were to schedule it for tomorrow, then 1300 UTC would work best for me. Let me know if you prefer tomorrow or some time next week.

~ Andrea

[edzhelyov]

Hey @madebydna, sorry for the late response I didn't have internet connection yesterday. I'm ok to start the session in 40 minutes, I know it's very late response, but could answer faster

[edzhelyov]

Oopx I didn't read it correctly, I'm ok for 1300 UTC

[madebydna]

I will be there :)

[madebydna]

Really enjoyed this first one of our two sessions. You can reference the logs from our session here. As discussed, we'll have the next session on Monday. PS. Either this time or next, you can give some feedback on this survey to help us improve our sessions. Thanks!