Coding Exercises

Overview¶

Every week, a new set of programming exercises will be introduced via GitHub. You can find the exercises at the repository https://github.com/omolazabal/si-fall-2019. Continue reading to learn how to use the repository.

The structures of the repository is as follows:

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├─ 1-dynamic-memory/    # Dynamic memory topic
│  ├─ codebase
│  └─ ...
│
├─ 2-fixed-vector/      # Vectors topic
│  ├─ codebase
│  └─ ...
│
├─ ...                  # Other topics
│  └─ ...
│
├─ 7-recursion/a        # Recursion topics
│  ├─ codebase
│  └─ ...

Where each directory labeled with a number represents a topic and their sub-directories represents their codebase.

Each topic's codebase contains functions with missing code segments. Participants will be tasked with filling in the missing information. Details on the missing information can be found under the topic's respective tab on this website.

At the end of the week, the topic's respective codebase will be upadated with solutions, in case participants were unable to finish during the SI session.

Getting started¶

1. Download and set up Tuffix.
2. Create a GitHub account
3. Fork the SI GitHub repository. You can accomplish this by clicking the Fork button on the top right corner of the repository's page.
4. Navigating to your preferred workspace in your terminal to work on the repository locally. Use this guide if necessary.
5. Clone your forked repository by running the following command. Replace YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME with your GitHub username.

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git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/si-fall-2019.git

Workflow¶

Initial Set Up¶

Before you begin working on programming exercises, you'll have to configure your repository so that you can update it with new problems. This can be done by running the following command in your terminal while in your repository:

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./gitconfig

Updating Your Set of Exercises¶

Every week of the semester this repository will be updated with new exercises. The files of each exercise will available in their respective folder. The task is to fill out the empty functions.

To update your repository with the latest problems, run the command:

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./update

Editing Code Segments¶

Code segments you are intended to modify are labeled via comments:

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#include "course.h"
#include "student.h"
#include <stdexcept>

using namespace std;

Course::Course() {
    // Initialize member variables.
    // By default, course will hold a max of 25 students.
    // ========= ONLY MODIFY BETWEEN THE LINES  ===========



    // ====================================================
}

Please only modify the code between the lines. If changes are made elsewhere, there will be issues when attempting to update your repository with new problems.

Testing Your Changes¶

To execute your programs, run the following command at the root of your repository:

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./run folder_name

Where the ./run signifies you want to run tests the corresponding code in the folder named folder_name. Please replace folder_name with the name of whichever folder you would like to test.

For example, the following command will un the unit tests associated with the 1-dynamic-memory problem set:

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./run 1-dynamic-memory

If you wish to run all tests, use the command:

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./run

Summary of commands¶

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