Month: December 2024 Key features delivered: - String-Based Min/Max Extraction Utility: Added a parsing utility that takes a string of space-separated numbers and returns the minimum and maximum values, enabling validation and quick numeric summaries. This supports input validation pipelines and quick reports for numeric data. - Lottery Ranking Logic: Implemented core logic to determine best and worst possible lottery ranks from a ticket using known numbers and zeros, enabling real-time ranking outcomes and quick feedback to users. - Crane Game Simulation: Implemented a crane game simulation that processes moves, removes matched dolls, and returns the total removed dolls, enabling gameplay simulation and auditing of outcomes. Major bugs fixed: - No separate bug-fix tickets documented this month. Focus was on delivering core features with correctness and maintainability. Where relevant, bug fixes were addressed within feature work (e.g., ensuring correct edge-case handling in parsing and simulation logic). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Business value: Enhanced validation, real-time insights, and gameplay simulation capabilities that can drive user engagement and automated testing/grading scenarios. The utilities enable quicker data validation and aggregation, while the ranking logic and simulation improve user-facing features and test coverage. - Technical accomplishments: Clean, focused implementations with small, well-scoped commits, clear naming in commits, and a coherent set of utilities and simulations that compose to richer functionality in daily-solvetto. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Algorithm design and reasoning for numeric parsing, rank calculation, and game simulation - State management and input validation patterns - Clean code practices, testability considerations, and incremental commits showing traceable problem solving