completed median sprint 1

Author: libanj0161

Sprint-1/fix/median.js

@@ -6,9 +6,39 @@
 // or 'list' has mixed values (the function is expected to sort only numbers).
 
 function calculateMedian(list) {
-  const middleIndex = Math.floor(list.length / 2);
-  const median = list.splice(middleIndex, 1)[0];
-  return median;
+  // if list is not an array return null.
+  if (!Array.isArray(list)) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  // create a variable called numbers and store an empty array.
+  let numbers = [];
+
+  // loop over each item in list.
+  for (const item of list) {
+    // if item is a number, push it into the numbers array.
+    if (typeof item === "number") {
+      numbers.push(item);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // if numbers array is empty return null.
+  if (numbers.length === 0) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  // sort the numbers in the number array in ascending order.
+  numbers.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+
+  // find the middle index and store it in a variable.
+  const middleIndex = Math.floor(numbers.length / 2);
+
+  // if its an even array there are two middle indexes, so add them together and divide by two.
+  if (numbers.length % 2 === 0) {
+    return (numbers[middleIndex] + numbers[middleIndex - 1]) / 2;
+  }
+  // for odd arrays return middle index.
+  return numbers[middleIndex];
 }
 
 module.exports = calculateMedian;

Sprint-1/fix/median.test.js

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ describe("calculateMedian", () => {
     { input: [1, 2, 3, 4], expected: 2.5 },
     { input: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], expected: 3.5 },
   ].forEach(({ input, expected }) =>
-    it(`returns the median for [${input}]`, () => expect(calculateMedian(input)).toEqual(expected))
+    it(`returns the median for [${input}]`, () =>
+      expect(calculateMedian(input)).toEqual(expected))
   );
 
   [
@@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ describe("calculateMedian", () => {
     { input: [110, 20, 0], expected: 20 },
     { input: [6, -2, 2, 12, 14], expected: 6 },
   ].forEach(({ input, expected }) =>
-    it(`returns the correct median for unsorted array [${input}]`, () => expect(calculateMedian(input)).toEqual(expected))
+    it(`returns the correct median for unsorted array [${input}]`, () =>
+      expect(calculateMedian(input)).toEqual(expected))
   );
 
   it("doesn't modify the input array [3, 1, 2]", () => {
@@ -33,8 +35,17 @@ describe("calculateMedian", () => {
     expect(list).toEqual([3, 1, 2]);
   });
 
-  [ 'not an array', 123, null, undefined, {}, [], ["apple", null, undefined] ].forEach(val =>
-    it(`returns null for non-numeric array (${val})`, () => expect(calculateMedian(val)).toBe(null))
+  [
+    "not an array",
+    123,
+    null,
+    undefined,
+    {},
+    [],
+    ["apple", null, undefined],
+  ].forEach((val) =>
+    it(`returns null for non-numeric array (${val})`, () =>
+      expect(calculateMedian(val)).toBe(null))
   );
 
   [
@@ -45,6 +56,7 @@ describe("calculateMedian", () => {
     { input: [3, "apple", 1, null, 2, undefined, 4], expected: 2.5 },
     { input: ["banana", 5, 3, "apple", 1, 4, 2], expected: 3 },
   ].forEach(({ input, expected }) =>
-    it(`filters out non-numeric values and calculates the median for [${input}]`, () => expect(calculateMedian(input)).toEqual(expected))
+    it(`filters out non-numeric values and calculates the median for [${input}]`, () =>
+      expect(calculateMedian(input)).toEqual(expected))
   );
 });