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queen-attack test that prevents incorrectly accepted answers due to unsigned type. #1011
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The tests for this exercise come from the language-agnostic problem-specifications. Also, I have to admit I understand neither the problem nor the proposed fix.
And in your new test the queens on squares
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No worries. Sometimes even experienced C programmers trip over the usual arithmetic conversions. Thanks for wanting to help. Happy coding! |
Hello everyone, this is the first time I'm opening an Issue and trying to make a PR, if anything I'm doing is wrong, please let me know.
The issue:
most solutions on the queen-attack exercise uses something like
abs(queen_1.row - queen_2.row) == abs(queen_1.column - queen_2.column);
The problem is when we have a underflow in the first abs() and not on the second one. Leading the students forgetting to check for underflow since row and column are Unsigned Int.There isn't a test to test this position(when both queens are on the opposite side of their initial position, but still on the same diagonal, which is a common chest position and the result should be
CAN_ATTACK
). I've made a simple test that checks this position and ensure the students don't commit this mistakes.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: