{"id":19564,"date":"2022-11-07T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-find-out-if-guessed-number-is-higher-lower-or-equal-to-random-number-or-guessed-before-etc\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:22:08","slug":"solved-find-out-if-guessed-number-is-higher-lower-or-equal-to-random-number-or-guessed-before-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-find-out-if-guessed-number-is-higher-lower-or-equal-to-random-number-or-guessed-before-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Find out if guessed number is higher, lower or equal to Random number, or guessed before etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-9422725\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"9422725\" data-parentid=\"9422623\" data-score=\"3\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Store your guesses in a list<\/p>\n<pre><code>private List&lt;int&gt; _guesses = new List&lt;int&gt;();\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>After calling <code>MakeGuess(guess)<\/code> add the guess to the list<\/p>\n<pre><code>_guesses.Add(guess);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Instead of the <code>foreach<\/code> loop do this<\/p>\n<pre><code>if (_guesses.Contains(guess)) {\n    return outcome.PreviousGuess;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr>\n<p>The last <code>else<\/code> can be simplified from<\/p>\n<pre><code>else if (Number &gt; guess) {\n    return Outcome.Low;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<pre><code>else {\n    return Outcome.Low;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>since this is the only possible case remaining.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I would simplify the method further<\/p>\n<pre><code>public Outcome MakeGuess(int guess)\n{\n    if (_guesses.Contains(guess)) {\n        return outcome.PreviousGuess;\n    }\n    if (guess == Number) {\n        return Outcome.Correct;\n    }   \n    if (guess &gt; Number) {\n        return Outcome.High;   \n    }   \n    return Outcome.Low;             }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The <code>else<\/code> keyword is not necessary because the <code>return<\/code> statements end the method execution if a case applies.<\/p>\n<p>The error handling should not be necessary if you calculate the random numbers correctly. You should not trap programming errors with error handling; instead, correct the errors! Error handling makes sense when calling a method can lead to an exception. An example is opening a file that might not exist or might be locked or the like. In libraries used by other persons, it makes sense to check if the parameters passed to a method are correct and to throw an exception if not.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Find out if guessed number is higher, lower or equal to Random number, or guessed before etc <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Store your guesses in a list private List&lt;int&gt; _guesses = new List&lt;int&gt;(); After calling MakeGuess(guess) add the guess to the list _guesses.Add(guess); Instead of the foreach loop do this if (_guesses.Contains(guess)) { return outcome.PreviousGuess; } The last else can be simplified from else if (Number &gt; guess) { return Outcome.Low; } to else { &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Find out if guessed number is higher, lower or equal to Random number, or guessed before etc\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-find-out-if-guessed-number-is-higher-lower-or-equal-to-random-number-or-guessed-before-etc\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Find out if guessed number is higher, lower or equal to Random number, or guessed before etc\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[751,324],"class_list":["post-19564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-asp-net","tag-c"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Find out if guessed number is higher, lower or equal to Random number, or guessed before etc - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-find-out-if-guessed-number-is-higher-lower-or-equal-to-random-number-or-guessed-before-etc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Find out if guessed number is higher, lower or equal to Random number, or guessed before etc - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Store your guesses in a list private List&lt;int&gt; _guesses = new List&lt;int&gt;(); After calling MakeGuess(guess) add the guess to the list _guesses.Add(guess); Instead of the foreach loop do this if (_guesses.Contains(guess)) { return outcome.PreviousGuess; } The last else can be simplified from else if (Number &gt; guess) { return Outcome.Low; } to else { ... 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