This is my submission for a technical assessment as part of a software developer position that I applied for during December 2021. The challenge was to create a .NET Core application that inputs a string and displays all of the possible 'palindrome partitions'. That is, all of the possible combinations of palindrome substrings.
The assessment instructions were sent as an E-Mail which I interpreted into a markdown file for public viewing. I also included specific implementation details and a description of how I approached the task.
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Friday 3rd: The assessment E-Mail was sent.
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Monday 6th: To start things off, I did a mock-up of the algorithm in Node JS. My local development environment is geared more towards Node JS so I used that as a sandbox instead of rushing straight into .NET Core. I have included this mock-up in this repository so you are welcome to look at it but keep in mind that it isn't meant to be serious.
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Tuesday 7th: Now that I was familiar with the algorithm, I was able to do an implementation in .NET Core. I did this from scratch rather than referring to the Node JS mock-up but at least I took the time to prepare beforehand.
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Thursday 9th: I wrote most of the unit tests on that day. To me, writing unit tests for software is a separate project in itself.
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Friday 10th: This day was for final polish. I completed the rest of the unit tests, double-checked all of the code, wrote the documentation, and made my final submission.
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Monday 13th: The assessment was due to be submitted by this date.
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Monday 20th: Submission was publicly released to GitHub.
A revised version was released on 31 March 2022.
To run the script, navigate to the ./net-solution/PalindromePartitions folder and execute dotnet run <input-text>
For the unit tests, I chose to use NUnit. To run them, navigate to the ./net-solution folder and execute dotnet test
I only included the Node JS mock-up for archive purposes and it is not meant to be serious. If you're that curious about it, navigate to ./mockup and run node index <input-text>
This submission is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You can do whatever you want with it as long as attribution is given. The hiring manager has allowed me to publicly share my submission provided that I do not disclose the name of the company.