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  • Aaron Zemach

    Repeated Subsequence Problem

    By Aaron Zemach

    This week began by implemeting the two new crawler types that I had determined a need for last week. The implementation of the crawlers themselves went as straightforward as I had anticipated last...

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    Tackling Longest Repeated Substring, and Building a Tool

    By Aaron Zemach

    After struggling through my worries about the best way to extract chunks of repeated code from programs last week, I decided that this week I would just implement a simple Longest Repeated...

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    Designing for the Future of Code Tests

    By Aaron Zemach

    My week involved a little bit of actually writing code--getting a new branch working and a couple of bug fixes--but a lot of design. Earlier in the week, I had a meeting with Kyle to continue a...

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    Code Tests on the Server

    By Aaron Zemach

    After stumbling around in the dark a bit with Rails, I've made it possible to upload Code Tests into the database. There interface in the IDE isn't designed to make this process very easy yet, but...

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    A Week of Little Improvements

    By Aaron Zemach

    This was one of those weeks where I didn't make a ton of progress in any one area, except to tie up a bunch of loose ends that were hanging around: I finally incorporated Dennis' method to...

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    Unit Tests and Headless Execution

    By Aaron Zemach

    This week I continued to work on preparing to take the Code Test code to the server. I believe that now, we are arguably in a good place to begin working on that (more about "arguably" in a...

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    Making Fixtures

    By Aaron Zemach

    This week, I worked on creating a system that would export Code Tests as fixtures instead of saving them to the database. Saving tests as fixtures means that they can be stored independently of any...