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49 changes: 45 additions & 4 deletions Sprint-1/fix/median.js
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Expand Up @@ -6,9 +6,50 @@
// 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 (!Array.isArray(list) || list.length === 0) return null;
//If the items are not an array or if the array is empty return null
const isItANumber = list.map((value) => {
if (value === null || value === undefined) {
return NaN;
}
//checks for null and undefined and ignore them.

if (typeof value === "number") {
return value;
}
// check for actual numbers and keep them.

return NaN;
});
//everything else is NaN.

const numbers = isItANumber.filter((num) => Number.isFinite(num));
if (numbers.length === 0) return null;
//checks the array before sorting and removing anything that is not a valid items and excludes NaN, Infinity and -Infinity.
const sortedList = [...numbers].sort((a, b) => a - b);
//Sorts the numbers without modifying the original array. This is useful but not always necessary.
const middleIndex = Math.floor(sortedList.length / 2);
//finds the median position
if (sortedList.length % 2 === 0) {
// if the list length is even, average the two middle numbers
return (sortedList[middleIndex - 1] + sortedList[middleIndex]) / 2;
//It finds the middles of the array and selects the number before the middle and and adds the next number then divides by 2 when number is even.
}
return sortedList[middleIndex];
//if it is odd it returns the middle number
}
//checking
// console.log(calculateMedian([1, 2, "3", null, undefined, 4])); // 2
// console.log(calculateMedian([1, 2, 3, 4])); // 2.5
// console.log(calculateMedian([110, 20, 0])); //20
// console.log(calculateMedian([1, "apple", 2, null, 5, undefined])); // 2
// console.log(calculateMedian("not array")); // null
// console.log(calculateMedian("")); // null
module.exports = calculateMedian;

//check list
// Is the input valid? ie not a string?
//Validate what is valid input should be
// sort input and put in new array
//calculate median
//check output
22 changes: 17 additions & 5 deletions Sprint-1/fix/median.test.js
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Expand Up @@ -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))
);

[
Expand All @@ -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]", () => {
Expand All @@ -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))
);

[
Expand All @@ -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))
);
});
23 changes: 22 additions & 1 deletion Sprint-1/implement/dedupe.js
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@@ -1 +1,22 @@
function dedupe() {}
function dedupe(arr) {
if (arr.length === 0) {
//checks if array is empty
return arr;
};
const newArray = []; // to store the new values after checking and deduplicating
for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
// checks every item in array for dupes
if (!newArray.includes(arr[i])) {
//checks if new item is already in newArray
newArray.push(arr[i]); // adds new item !in newArray and appends it
}
};
return newArray; // returns new array without duplicates/empty
};

// console.log(dedupe([])); // prints: []
// console.log(dedupe([1, 2, 3])); // prints: [ 1, 2, 3 ]
// console.log(dedupe([5, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 5, 8])); // prints: [ 5, 1, 2, 3, 8 ]
// console.log(dedupe(["a", "a", "a", "b", "b", "c"])); // prints: [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]

module.exports = dedupe;
18 changes: 17 additions & 1 deletion Sprint-1/implement/dedupe.test.js
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Expand Up @@ -16,13 +16,29 @@ E.g. dedupe([1, 2, 1]) returns [1, 2]
// Given an empty array
// When passed to the dedupe function
// Then it should return an empty array
test.todo("given an empty array, it returns an empty array");
test("given an empty array, it returns an empty array", () => {
expect(dedupe([])).toEqual([]);
});

// Given an array with no duplicates
// When passed to the dedupe function
// Then it should return a copy of the original array
test("given an array has no duplicates, it returns a copy of the original array", () => {
const originalArray = [1, 2, 3];
const result = dedupe(originalArray);
expect(result).toEqual(originalArray);
expect(result).not.toBe(originalArray);
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This test can verify the function can return a different array.

However, there is a chance that, even though result has incorrect elements (for example, [1, 1, 1]),
the test on line 29 could still pass. Can you figure out why, and then improve the test accordingly?

});

// Given an array of strings or numbers
// When passed to the dedupe function
// Then it should remove the duplicate values, preserving the first occurence of each element
test("given an array with strings or numbers, it removes the duplicates preserving the first occurrence of each element", () => {
expect(dedupe([5, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 5, 8])).toEqual([5, 1, 2, 3, 8]);
expect(dedupe([1, 2, 1])).toEqual([1, 2]);
expect(dedupe(["a", "a", "a", "b", "b", "c"])).toEqual(["a", "b", "c"]);
expect(dedupe(["z", "y", "w", "w", "u", "u"])).toEqual(["z", "y", "w", "u"]);
});
// Then it should return a new array with duplicates removed while preserving the
// first occurrence of each element from the original array.
// updated version
10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion Sprint-1/implement/max.js
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@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
function findMax(elements) {
}
if (!Array.isArray(elements)) return null;

if (elements.length === 0) return -Infinity;
// must include declaration for infinity or test fails.
const numbers = elements.filter((num) => Number.isFinite(num));
if (numbers.length === 0) return NaN;
// it returns NaN if no numbers found, there is no need to sort the numbers
return Math.max(...numbers);
}
//console.log(findMax([200, 5, 8, 15, 90, 12]));
module.exports = findMax;
25 changes: 24 additions & 1 deletion Sprint-1/implement/max.test.js
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Expand Up @@ -16,28 +16,51 @@ const findMax = require("./max.js");
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return -Infinity
// Delete this test.todo and replace it with a test.
test.todo("given an empty array, returns -Infinity");
test("given an empty array, it returns -Infinity", () => {
expect(findMax([])).toBe(-Infinity);
});

// Given an array with one number
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return that number
test("given an array with one number, it returns that number", () => {
expect(findMax([1])).toEqual(1);
});

// Given an array with both positive and negative numbers
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return the largest number overall
test("given an array with positive and negative numbers, it returns the largest overall number", () => {
expect(findMax([-5, 35, 15, -55])).toEqual(35);
});

// Given an array with just negative numbers
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return the closest one to zero

test("given an array with just negative numbers, returns the closest to zero", () => {
expect(findMax([-55, -35, -15, -5])).toEqual(-5);
});

// Given an array with decimal numbers
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return the largest decimal number

test("given an array with decimal numbers, it returns the largest decimal number", () => {
expect(findMax([5.5, 3.5, 1.5, 0.5])).toEqual(5.5);
});

// Given an array with non-number values
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return the max and ignore non-numeric values

test("ignores non-number values and returns the max number", () => {
expect(findMax(["Not", "A", "Number", "300", 75, 85, 105])).toEqual(105);
});

// Given an array with only non-number values
// When passed to the max function
// Then it should return the least surprising value given how it behaves for all other inputs
test("given an array with non-number values, returns Not a Number (NaN)", () => {
expect(findMax(["a", "b", "c"])).toBeNaN(); // note: NaN !== NaN,
});
11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions Sprint-1/implement/sum.js
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@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
function sum(elements) {
const numbers = elements.filter((num) => Number.isFinite(num));

if (numbers.length === 0 && elements.length > 0) return NaN;

return numbers.reduce((total, nextNumber) => total + nextNumber, 0);
}
// console.log(sum([])); // 0
// console.log(sum([1])); // 1
// console.log(sum([5, 2, -3])); //4
// console.log(sum([1.5, 2.5, 3.5])); //7.5
// console.log(sum(["h", 2.5, "e", 3.5])); //6
// console.log(sum(["a", "b", "c", "d"])); //Nan

module.exports = sum;
22 changes: 20 additions & 2 deletions Sprint-1/implement/sum.test.js
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Expand Up @@ -13,24 +13,42 @@ const sum = require("./sum.js");
// Given an empty array
// When passed to the sum function
// Then it should return 0
test.todo("given an empty array, returns 0")
test("given an empty array, it returns 0", () => {
expect(sum([])).toEqual(0);
});

// Given an array with just one number
// When passed to the sum function
// Then it should return that number
test("given an array with just one number, it returns that number", () => {
expect(sum([1])).toEqual(1);
});

// Given an array containing negative numbers
// When passed to the sum function
// Then it should still return the correct total sum
test("given an array containing negative numbers, it returns the correct sum", () => {
expect(sum([5, 2, -3])).toEqual(4);
});

// Given an array with decimal/float numbers
// When passed to the sum function
// Then it should return the correct total sum

test("given an array with decimal float numbers, it should return the total sum", () => {
expect(sum([1.5, 2.5, 3.5])).toBeCloseTo(7.5);
});
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Decimal numbers in most programming languages (including JS) are internally represented in "floating point number" format. Floating point arithmetic is not exact. For example, the result of 46.5678 - 46 === 0.5678 is false because 46.5678 - 46 only yield a value that is very close to 0.5678. Even changing the order in which the program add/subtract numbers can yield different values.

So the following could happen

  expect( 1.2 + 0.6 + 0.005 ).toEqual( 1.805 );                // This fail
  expect( 1.2 + 0.6 + 0.005 ).toEqual( 1.8049999999999997 );   // This pass
  expect( 0.005 + 0.6 + 1.2 ).toEqual( 1.8049999999999997 );   // This fail

  console.log(1.2 + 0.6 + 0.005 == 1.805);  // false
  console.log(1.2 + 0.6 + 0.005 == 0.005 + 0.6 + 1.2); // false

Can you find a more appropriate way to test a value (that involves decimal number calculations) for equality?

Suggestion: Look up

  • Checking equality in floating point arithmetic in JavaScript
  • Checking equality in floating point arithmetic with Jest

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Hi @cjyuan, Thank you for your feedback. I understand now why decimal values need special handling. toBeCloseTo() is a better choice because it checks that the result is close enough within a small margin, which avoids issues caused by floating‑point rounding.

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Note: The default value of the second parameter of toBeCloseTo() is only 2
See: https://jestjs.io/docs/expect#tobeclosetonumber-numdigits

For the default value 2, the test criterion is Math.abs(expected - received) < 0.005, which may not be precise enough in some applications.

// Given an array containing non-number values
// When passed to the sum function
// Then it should ignore the non-numerical values and return the sum of the numerical elements
test("given an array containing non-number values, it should ignore the non-numbers and sum the numerical elements", () => {
expect(sum(["h", 2.5, "e", 3.5])).toEqual(6);
});

// Given an array with only non-number values
// When passed to the sum function
// Then it should return the least surprising value given how it behaves for all other inputs
test("given an array with non-number values, returns Not a Number (NaN)", () => {
expect(sum(["a", "b", "c"])).toBeNaN(); // note: NaN !== NaN,
});

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