/Airport---JS

Weekend challenge 1 re-done in Javascript

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Airport Challenge

Program for control of flow of planes through an airport, depending on whether weather is stormy or clear as gnenerated by random

Getting Started

Clone or download this Repo.

then load into Node

Node

in the terminal.

Once in the node repl use as per image:

Pic of app

Dependancies

- Javascript
- Jest - 23.6.0 - testing framework
- JS Node modules - For testing and use via Node REPL.

Approach

I approached this in the same manner as the original challenge. The big difference being that this is another language. I used this simple 3 object program to get to grips with using Javascript and the Jest testing framework. In essence translating the original Ruby version to Javascript via test driving. This is really a simple demonstration of the type of project I can complete to learn a new language.

Code Structure

Currently the app operates over three distinct classes; which I shall list here with their responsibilities and functions.

Airport

  • Responsibilities:

    • Controls the hangar via comparing capacity to hangar length.
    • Decides whether a plane can land or not due to weather.

  • Functions:

    • constructor: takes name, capacity, instantiates a hangar array and grabs the weather conditions.
    • Land() calls on other methods to decide if a plane can land, if they can it adds it to the hangar array.
    • TakeOff() - removes a plane from the array via .pop()
    • isFull() private method - decides if the hangar is full or not via capactiy/hangar.length comparison.
    • isStormy() private method - decides if the weather is stormy or not.
    • landPlane() -private method for handling moving of planes to hangar via .push(.

Plane

Is simply an object constructor with no other functions or responsibilities.

Weather

  • Responsibilities

    • Controls whether the weather is stormy or clear.

  • Functions:

    • getWeather() - randomly decides the weather, there is a 3 in 10 chance of weather being poor.

Notes for the future

  • Considering this projects role as a learning exercise is complete and I now feel very confident with Javascript it is unlikely I will put any more time into this repo.

  • Potential work :

    • land needs to be shortened via extracting the if/else - have plated with some ideas of this.LandingCleared variables to control it but to no avail yet.
    • I would update the gitignore to remove both coverage and node modules from github.

  • Potential test work: - more edge cases could be tested for perhaps, such as landing multiple planes at once. Changing weather etc. - Could test drive to stop takeOff in stormy weather too.

Authors

  • Georges Le Vaillant - GLV

Acknowledgments

  • Makers Academy