Leaves - Hallie and Georgina: Adagrams

[idhallie]

Adagrams

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Comprehension Questions

Feature	Feedback
What are the components that make up a method?	Method signatures, parameters, block
What are the advantages of using git when collaboratively working on one code base?	This allows tracking of changes and version control. This is a way to prevent unintended conflicts when multiple people are working on the same file.
What kind of relationship did you and your pair have with the unit tests?	At times, we had a strained relationship with the unit tests (haha). However, by using a combination of Pry and 'rake' for the unit tests, we were able to find errors and solve for tests one by one.
Does your code use any methods from the Enumerable mixin? If so, where and why was it helpful?	Yes! In Wave 4, we used max_by to identify the highest scoring word and min_by to get the lowest length word out of the "tied_words" array.
What was one method you and your pair used to debug code?	We wrote small pieces of code and then used pry to pause the program and confirm that our code produced the output we expected (ex. casting an array to a hash).
What are two discussion points that you and your pair discussed when giving/receiving feedback from each other that you would be willing to share?	We discovered that with complicated problems we needed to step away and brainstorm individually before coming together to discuss next steps. We found that we have a similar communication style and approached many code problems the exact same way.

[dHelmgren]

Adagrams

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
General
Answered comprehension questions	Yes
Small commits with meaningful commit messages	yes!
Code Requirements
draw_letters method
Uses appropriate data structure to store the letter distribution	yes
All tests for draw_letters pass	yes
uses_available_letters? method
All tests for uses_available_letters? pass	yes
score_word method
Uses appropriate data structure to store the letter scores	yes
All tests for score_word pass	yes
highest_score_from method
Appropriately handles edge cases for tie-breaking logic	yes
All tests for highest_score_from pass	yes
Overall	Great work overall! See my comments for a few small spots that could be clarified and cleaned up!

[dHelmgren]

This is weird. What are you trying to achieve here? It needs a comment.

[dHelmgren]

Once you have this hash, do you need a second one? Or can you just iterate through the input and reduce the values on the hand_hash?

[dHelmgren]

Nice!

[dHelmgren]

Love the labelling.