I enjoyed this style of problem solving, but it took me a while to figure
out the small straight. I kept thinking that I had it but then I realized
with testing and playing the game that I had forgotten about if the die
had duplicates. Originally 1,1,2,3,4 was not detecting a straight. Then
I thought checking in reverse would help this, but I forgot about
duplicates in the middle (1,2,3,3,4). Ultimately I had to add some code
to remove any duplicates from the list and then it finally worked.
I did find this problem solving to be easier to code once I found the
problem, but sometimes the problem (like with the example above) was not
always apparent. I spent more time thinking about how to solve the problem
in this topic compared to other topics, but less time debugging the actual
code than in previous units. I think I am becoming more familiar with the
coding and am starting to be able to use it to solve new problems.
Chris Mekelburg
cmekelburg