code-challenges

Welcome to your daily practice challenge! You only need to do one challenge per day. For example, if your project is named "code-challenge-1a-", then you should only be looking at challenges > 1a.js .

How to work on your code challenge

• You should receive a daily link in the Techtonica Roadmap. Once you click it, there will be a page with the code challenge name and an "Accept this assignment" button. Click "Accept this assignment".
• You should then see a page that says "You are ready to go!" and "Your assignment has been created here:". Click the github link provided, which will take you to your new repo. If you get a 500 error, refresh the page a few times, and you should get the correct page in a few seconds.
• Click the green "Clone or download" button. Copy the URL text provided.
• In your terminal make sure your current directory is where you normally keep coding projects.
• Enter git clone <paste-URL-here>. Ex. git clone https://github.com/Techtonica/code-challenge-1a-chochan.git
• You should now be able to navigate to your new project: cd code-challenge-1a-chochan. You can check on the name using ls first to make sure.
• run npm install in your shell to populate the package dependencies
• Open it in your preferred IDE. Ex: code .
• If today's code challenge is 1a, find challenges > 1a.js and get to work.
• Check out the Testing section below to take advantage of our unit tests.
• When time is almost up, submit whatever you have - we may be able to give you some advice, and you can pick up where you left off some other time.
• If you haven't finished, note that it is still "in progress" in the Roadmap, and anywhere else you are keeping track of things.
• Stop working and move on to the rest of the day's tasks. You can come back to the code challenge when you have extra time later; these are important practice, but not a priority to complete.

How to submit your code challenge

• In your terminal, enter git status to make sure that today's challenge file is the only thing you changed.
• git add just that file. Ex: git add challenges/1a.js
• Enter git status to make sure challenges/1a.js is staged.
• git commit -m "solve 1a" to commit what youve added.
• git push to push your changes up to GitHub.
• You may receive an email alert if you receive feedback on your submission.

You will end up with a lot of projects on your computer called code-challenge-* after a few weeks. If they are saved up in GitHub, and especially if they pass all the tests, there is no reason to keep them - go ahead and delete. You can always download again later.

Testing

• In your terminal, navigate to today's code challenge project; for example, cd code-challenge-1a-chochan.
• Since the day's code challenge is 1a, I only need to test that file with this command: npm run test spec/1a-spec.js
• It should fail if you haven't started yet.
• open challenges > 1a.js and get to work, running the test command again whenever you like.

Troubleshooting

• 4 specs, 0 failures Finished in 0.009 seconds: No failures - they all passed!

• SyntaxError: Unexpected token ')': This most likely means your return statement is empty. Start entering your code in today's "challenges" file.

  Another problem could be that your parenthesis don't match perfectly.

Technology

This project uses Jasmine to test JavaScript files.