Completed the Gradebook App exercise on freeCodeCamp. It's worth noting that I used an if else statement when a much conciser alternative was available:
function hasPassingGrade(score) {
return getGrade(score) !== "F";
}
In other news, I might like ChatGPT's color scheme too much.
I decided to work with ChatGPT to see how well it could handle pseudocode (or, from a different perspective, to see how interpretable my pseudocode was). I provided the following prompt:
I have a set of test scores and need to write a function that will find the average of any set of test scores. Please write a function, called "getAverage", that can take an arbitrary number of scores, contained in a single array, and find the average score.
The function must fit the following pseudocode:
ChatGPT returned the following:
function getAverage(array) {
let totalScores = array.length; // Step 1
let sum = 0; // Step 2
// Step 3-6: Loop through the array, adding the first item to sum and removing it
while (array.length > 0) {
sum += array[0]; // Add the first item to sum
array.shift(); // Remove the first item in the array
}
// Step 7: Calculate the average score
let averageScore = sum / totalScores;
// Step 8: Return the result
return averageScore;
}
// Example usage:
let testScores = [90, 80, 70, 85, 95];
console.log(getAverage(testScores)); // Output: 84
I'll pick this apart later. If I'm going to use ChatGPT, I want to make sure that it gives me code that I don't understand (or at least code that I do not go on to understand), and also it did not take exactly the same approach that I would have taken, and I want to understand why. For now, though, it's late, and I need to do a few other things before I go to bed.