In Flight Entertainment

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This a problem set for you to work through [1]

This is a problem set. Some of these are easy, others are far more difficult. The purpose of these problems sets are:

  1. to build your skill applying computational thinking to a problem
  2. to assess your knowledge and skills of different programming practices


What is this problem set trying to do[edit]

In this problem set, we are thinking computationally

The Problem[edit]

I found this problem on interview cake, and use it with gratitude[2].

You've built an inflight entertainment system with on-demand movie streaming.

Users on longer flights like to start a second movie right when their first one ends, but they complain that the plane usually lands before they can see the ending. So you're building a feature for choosing two movies whose total runtimes will equal the exact flight length.

Write a function that takes an integer flight_length (in minutes) and a list of integers movie_lengths (in minutes) and returns a boolean indicating whether there are two numbers in movie_lengths whose sum equals flight_length.

When building your function:

  1. Assume your users will watch exactly two movies
  2. Don't make your users watch the same movie twice

The list of movies length in minutes:

#
# Movie length in minutes
#
movieLength = [110,150,159,180,100,145,185,90,93,98,102,122,120]

Unit Tests[edit]

  • User Input: 600
  • Expected output: True
  • User Input: 90
  • Expected output: False
  • User Input: 120
  • Expected output: False

Hacker edition[edit]

In the hacker version:

In addition to the output above, your program should calculate how many movies a user can watch on a very long flight.

How you will be assessed[edit]

Your solution will be graded using the following axis:


Scope

  • To what extent does your code implement the features required by our specification?
  • To what extent is there evidence of effort?

Correctness

  • To what extent did your code meet specifications?
  • To what extent did your code meet unit tests?
  • To what extent is your code free of bugs?

Design

  • To what extent is your code written well (i.e. clearly, efficiently, elegantly, and/or logically)?
  • To what extent is your code eliminating repetition?
  • To what extent is your code using functions appropriately?

Style

  • To what extent is your code readable?
  • To what extent is your code commented?
  • To what extent are your variables well named?
  • To what extent do you adhere to style guide?

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A possible solution[edit]

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