problem-specifications: minesweeper tests do not contain border

In the description of the minesweeper problem, the minefield is shown as being surrounded by border characters. The test cases have no borders. Borders make the problem a bit easier by obviating the need for clipping. Should fix either the tests or the description.

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Comments: 15 (14 by maintainers)

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issue: https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1555 So that the description and the tests are consistent, I added borders to the minefields in canonical-data.json — committed to sprinkle24/problem-specifications by deleted user 5 years ago

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I’m not sure where you think there is a mismatch? The border in the example is to make it easier for the human to understand the example.

There is a mismatch in that the description.md implies that borders will be in the data the student has to work with. Since the student never sees the JSON that’s a reasonable inference.

This could be resolved by incorporating some text in the description.md that clearly states that the borders are for display purposes only and will not be in the test data.

yawpitch on Oct 6, 2019

~~this issue needs to be moved to problem-specifications.~~ it now has been.

petertseng on Jul 21, 2019