[Clock] Review Test Cases and Discuss Structure and Objectives of Exercise
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation, testing
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Clock exercise's current instructions and tests, then read issues #2926 and #3008 for the reported concerns. Done means the exercise's structure, objectives, tests, directions, and hints have an agreed revision plan that addresses the discussion.
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Description
Filing this as a tracking issue and invitation to a discussion on revisions to this exercise.
The intent of Clock was to practice class customization and operator overloading via dunder methods in Python.
We've recently had quite a few changes, adding __repr__ to the mix, as well as additional instructions and tests in support of that change. A few issues have now come up around it:
- Issue #2926
- Issue #3008
It feels like this exercise is overloaded. It especially has too many tests, and is perhaps not clear enough in its directions and hints as to what the student does or does not need to think about for their implementations.
Thoughts on rework/adjustment clarification strategies welcome here.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 2.5k
- Forks
- 1.5k
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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