DiamondKata

Repository to solve the Diamond Kata

Instructions

1. Watch the videos:
   • Testing: https://clipchamp.com/watch/QYNTPvWeESJ
   • Running the App: https://clipchamp.com/watch/4iEbqGBSTB0
2. Clone this repository
3. Open up the .Net solution in the IDE of your choice. The following IDEs have been tested:
   • Rider 2023.1.2
   • Visual studio 2022 Community Edition
4. Build the Code
5. Run the tests
   • via the IDE
   • via the CLI from the repo's root directory dotnet test
6. Choose how you are going to run the application:
   • Console App via IDE
   • Console App via shell

Run via shell

Issue the following command:

dotnet Diamond.Console.dll --help

Sample command that will render starting from the letter 'O' to the diamond's apex at X with the '%' char as the spacing character

dotnet Diamond.Console.dll -l -i O -s '%' -t X

Things to consider

• Create an interface and implementations of other Diamond Katas, then create a Test with an extremely large diamond to bench mark the implementations against each other
• Create a Json Writer so it can be consumed by a Web Api