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Grade School

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Instructions

Given students' names along with the grade that they are in, create a roster for the school.

In the end, you should be able to:

  • Add a student's name to the roster for a grade
    • "Add Jim to grade 2."
    • "OK."
  • Get a list of all students enrolled in a grade
    • "Which students are in grade 2?"
    • "We've only got Jim just now."
  • Get a sorted list of all students in all grades. Grades should sort as 1, 2, 3, etc., and students within a grade should be sorted alphabetically by name.
    • "Who all is enrolled in school right now?"
    • "Let me think. We have Anna, Barb, and Charlie in grade 1, Alex, Peter, and Zoe in grade 2 and Jim in grade 5. So the answer is: Anna, Barb, Charlie, Alex, Peter, Zoe and Jim"

Note that all our students only have one name (It's a small town, what do you want?) and each student cannot be added more than once to a grade or the roster. In fact, when a test attempts to add the same student more than once, your implementation should indicate that this is incorrect.

It isn't strictly necessary to model students as a separate object, you can use a convenient internal data structure as the requirements are quite simple (and as long as it doesn't leak out into the results).

Note

This exercise has been slightly modified from the problem-specification, as it makes more sense to separate adding students and querying them in separate methods (vs. having one method doing both, which feels less Pharo/Smalltalk like).


Source

A pairing session with Phil Battos at gSchool
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