Minor formatting issues for Resistor Color Expert

BNAndras · February 15, 2025, 6:07pm

exercism/python/blob/93744302aa5f36eabcbafd3402f5ca766f71a2bc/exercises/practice/resistor-color-expert/.docs/instructions.md?plain=1#L18


      
          - Brown: 1
          - Red: 2
          - Orange: 3
          - Yellow: 4
          - Green: 5
          - Blue: 6
          - Violet: 7
          - Grey: 8
          - White: 9
          
          In `resistor-color trio` you decoded the first three colors.
          For instance: orange-orange-brown translated to the main value `330`.
          In this exercise you will need to add _tolerance_ to the mix.
          Tolerance is the maximum amount that a value can be above or below the main value.
          For example, if the last band is green, the maximum tolerance will be ±0.5%.
          
          The tolerance band will have one of these values:
          
          - Grey - 0.05%
          - Violet - 0.1%
          - Blue - 0.25%

There’s a missing dash between color and trio. However, we should probably refer to the exercise name, not the slug. The student would be more familiar with the name.

Elsewhere in that document, we refer to the inputs in the style of <color>-<color>-<color> or “<color>”, “<color>”, “<color>”. This could be consistently applied one way or the other.

Otherwise, it’s a great exercise I’m going to borrow for my tracks.

BethanyG · February 15, 2025, 6:53pm

@BNAndras PR welcome for using the Exercise name as opposed to the slug and for making the <> refs consistent.

Also shout out to @Meatball for co-authoring this exercise and working very hard on it.

And for further twists (potentially??) check out this issue filed by @xanni. I think there is a discussion thread here on the forum for it as well.

BethanyG · February 21, 2025, 3:41am

Fixed in PR3873.

As an FYI: the color examples in the latter half of the instructions were meant to show that the function inputs would be lists.

So I changed the examples to be list literals. You’ll need to adjust them for your target languages.