angelikatyborska's solution to Resistor Color on the Elixir track

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Solution

Resistors have color coded bands, where each color maps to a number. The first 2 bands of a resistor have a simple encoding scheme: each color maps to a single number.

These colors are encoded as follows:

Black: 0
Brown: 1
Red: 2
Orange: 3
Yellow: 4
Green: 5
Blue: 6
Violet: 7
Grey: 8
White: 9

Mnemonics map the colors to the numbers, that, when stored as an array, happen to map to their index in the array: Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Values Go Wrong.

Running tests

Execute the tests with:

$ mix test

Pending tests

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# @tag :pending
test "shouting" do
  assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end

Or, you can enable all the tests by commenting out the ExUnit.configure line in the test suite.

# ExUnit.configure exclude: :pending, trace: true

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Source

This is an exercise to introduce users to basic programming constructs, just after Hello World. Electronic color code Wikipedia article

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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resistor_color_test.exs

defmodule ResistorColorTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  # @tag :pending
  test "returns black color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("black") == 0
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns brown color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("brown") == 1
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns red color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("red") == 2
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns orange color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("orange") == 3
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns yellow color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("yellow") == 4
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns green color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("green") == 5
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns blue color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("blue") == 6
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns violet color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("violet") == 7
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns grey color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("grey") == 8
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns white color code" do
    assert ResistorColor.code("white") == 9
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "returns all colors" do
    colors = [
      "black",
      "brown",
      "red",
      "orange",
      "yellow",
      "green",
      "blue",
      "violet",
      "grey",
      "white"
    ]

    assert ResistorColor.colors() == colors
  end
end

test_helper.exs

ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(exclude: :pending, trace: true)

defmodule ResistorColor do
  @moduledoc false

  @colors_to_values %{
    "black" => 0,
    "brown" => 1,
    "red" => 2,
    "orange" => 3,
    "yellow" => 4,
    "green" => 5,
    "blue" => 6,
    "violet" => 7,
    "grey" => 8,
    "white" => 9
  }

  @spec colors() :: list(String.t())
  def colors do
    @colors_to_values
    |> Map.to_list()
    |> Enum.sort_by(&elem(&1, 1))
    |> Enum.map(fn {color, _value} -> color end)
  end

  @spec code(String.t()) :: integer()
  def code(color) do
    @colors_to_values[color]
  end
end

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