Work on the sample exercise defined below for 30 minutes.
As you work, you may:
- Ask questions of your facilitator
- Reference external public resources (ie: Google, Ruby API, etc)
- Use the tooling most comfortable to you (Editor/IDE, testing framework, support tools like Guard, etc)
As you work, you should not:
- Copy code snippets other than those present in this description
- Seek live support from individuals other than your facilitator
$ git clone https://github.com/turingschool/scrabble
$ cd scrabble
$ bundle
Starter files for both MiniTest and RSpec are provided.
To run the RSpec specs:
bundle exec rake spec
To run the MiniTest tests:
bundle exec rake test
Let’s use test-driven development to build pieces of a Scrabble-like game.
Create functionality to score words based on the following letter values:
Letter | Value |
---|---|
A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T | 1 |
D, G | 2 |
B, C, M, P | 3 |
F, H, V, W, Y | 4 |
K | 5 |
J, X | 8 |
Q, Z | 10 |
{
"A"=>1, "B"=>3, "C"=>3, "D"=>2,
"E"=>1, "F"=>4, "G"=>2, "H"=>4,
"I"=>1, "J"=>8, "K"=>5, "L"=>1,
"M"=>3, "N"=>1, "O"=>1, "P"=>3,
"Q"=>10, "R"=>1, "S"=>1, "T"=>1,
"U"=>1, "V"=>4, "W"=>4, "X"=>8,
"Y"=>4, "Z"=>10
}
Create your solution:
- using Test-Driven Development with MiniTest or RSpec
- insensitive to case
- such that an empty word or nil scores 0
- using this interaction model:
> game = Scrabble.new
=> ...
> game.score("hello")
=> 8
> game.score("")
=> 0
> game.score(nil)
=> 0