Programming Challenges - Week 3 - Prep for Competition

Create GitHub page using Jekyell

1. Go to jekyll-now, and follow the Quick Start step by step.
2. Once your site is up and running, let’s create a new post by following the above guide.

Unit Testing

Python has a built-in UnitTest module, but it’s cumbersome to use. Let’s use assert function instead. Using assert function is quite simple. Here is an example:

def add(a, b):
    return a + b

def simple_test():
    assert(add(2, 5)) == 7

if __name__ == '__main__':
    simple_test()

The benefit of using assert function is that, you can automate the unit testing. Instead of typing input manually, you can run the code, and testing is done for you.

Programming Competition

Some competitions requires to read input from a file and write output to a file.