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to Grade School in the OCaml Track

Published at Jan 11 2019 · 0 comments
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Given students' names along with the grade that they are in, create a roster for the school.

In the end, you should be able to:

  • Start with an empty school.
  • Add a student's name to the roster for a grade
    • "Add Jim to grade 2."
    • "OK."
  • Get a list of all students enrolled in a grade
    • "Which students are in grade 2?"
    • "We've only got Jim just now."
  • Get a sorted list of all students in all grades. Grades should sort as 1, 2, 3, etc., and students within a grade should be sorted alphabetically by name.
    • "Who all is enrolled in school right now?"
    • "Grade 1: Anna, Barb, and Charlie. Grade 2: Alex, Peter, and Zoe. Grade 3…"

Note that all our students only have one name. (It's a small town, what do you want?)

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Installation

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opam install base

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opam install ounit

Running Tests

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make

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opam install utop

Consult utop for more detail.

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Source

A pairing session with Phil Battos at gSchool http://gschool.it

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

test.ml

open OUnit2
open Grade_school

let assert_lists_equal exp got _ctx =
  let printer = String.concat ";" in
  assert_equal exp got ~printer

let tests = [
  "an empty school has no children in grade 1" >::
    assert_lists_equal [] (grade 1 empty_school);
  "an empty school has Emma in grade 1 after she's been added to grade 1" >::(
    let s = add "Emma" 1 empty_school in
    assert_lists_equal ["Emma"] (grade 1 s)
  );
  "an empty school does not have Emma in grade 1 after she's been added to grade 2" >::(
    let s = add "Emma" 2 empty_school in
    assert_lists_equal [] (grade 1 s)
  );
  "an empty school has Emma, Timmy, Bob and Becky in grade 1 after they've been added to grade 1" >::(
    let s = empty_school |> add "Emma" 1 |> add "Timmy" 1 |> add "Bob" 1 |> add "Becky" 1 in
    assert_lists_equal ["Becky"; "Bob"; "Emma"; "Timmy"] (grade 1 s |> List.sort compare)
  );
  "a sorted school has Emma, Timmy, Bob and Becky in grade 1 in sorted order" >::(
    let s = empty_school |> add "Emma" 1 |> add "Timmy" 1 |> add "Bob" 1 |> add "Becky" 1 |> sorted in
    assert_lists_equal ["Becky"; "Bob"; "Emma"; "Timmy"] (grade 1 s)
  );
]

let () =
  run_test_tt_main ("grade-school tests" >::: tests)
open Base

(** Grade-school exercise *)
type school = string list Map.M(Int).t

let empty_school =
  Map.empty (module Int)

(** Add a student to a school *)
let add name grade school =
  let students =
    match Map.find school grade with
    | Some names -> (name :: names) |> List.sort ~compare:String.compare
    | None -> name :: []
  in
  Map.set school ~key:grade ~data:students

(** Get all the students from a grade *)
let grade g school =
  match Map.find school g with
  | Some students -> students
  | None -> []

(** Sort the list of students in a grade, if necessary *)
let sorted school =
  school

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