All these ARE explained. Not spoon fed, ok, but the info are present.

Already raised as issue a bucnh of messages below, so closing.

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@biggybeans: please stop posting ASCII art in solutions. Your account is suspended a bunch of days because of this.

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I personally don't think that's enough to approve this kata.

Waiting for the opinion of other users.

maybe. I tried this 6y ago, I don't even remember what I was trying to do here...

Debatable, but to prevent prematurated approval:

Isn't the kata just another dup of the many calculators kata? (I'm specifically thinking about the C# one, which uses some similar concepts)

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Hi,

well, that's explained in the description: you're supposed to declare all those. Hence, not an issue.

But probably not after this kata being approved.

ofc, you can change the tests if that's needed.

Not an issue. The string length is the same, but using diagonals, the path length is bigger.

Nothing is mentioned about preferring straight lines over diagonals.

That's exactly what the specification is saying, though:

The shortest path is defined as the path with the shortest euclidiean distance going from one node to the next.

I think the idea is valuable, but the current context makes it pop in a "kinda out of the blue" way. The description focuses a lot on the perf problem, but not really on the fact there is a second bug to find/handle.

sidenote: I'm not sure but, the first part could at some point break when upgrading the java version, couldn't it? (auto optimization. Or the fact you're tapping into the map is enough to avoid that?)

edit: if you don't handle upper and lower case, it's possible less people will try to rewrite the code.

'Might be a good idea to stress the fact that the second part is quite... an unexpeted bug, or something along that line...

(edit: thing is, ppl rewritting it from scratch won't even notice the problem... Which is a bit "sad", sort of)

Hi,

Please format the message using code blocks : the maps are currently unreadable -note: you'll have to post that in another message: it's not possible to edit the initial message of a thread once an answer to it has been posted).

Also, it would be more interesting to start with the fixed test rather than the random ones.

Well, CW is not supposed to be used this way. You can send your pupils/students solving problems here, but teaching material very rarely fits a good kata. Moreover, CW lacks a lot of tools you'd probably want for the pedagogic side of the work. For those, you should look for Qulified.io (link at the bottom of the page. Not free, but designed by the authors of CW, for this kind of purpose. Among others).

On the other hand, you can create your own kata and keep them in draft state. That way, your pupils still can try them if you give them a direct link to the trainer, but they won't be able to "submit final".

edit: I strongly discourage you to keep publishing those kata, though : when they are published, they become public, and they'll "hit the wall" of the beta reviewers. So it might make the experience rather unpleasant for you (and the reviewers, possibly x) ).

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Same problem here (see you other kata) -> Unpublishing.

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