Merge pull request #308 from exercism/saddle-points

Add saddle-points practice exercise

Author: rabestro

config.json

@@ -721,6 +721,14 @@
         "practices": [],
         "prerequisites": [],
         "difficulty": 5
+      },
+      {
+        "slug": "saddle-points",
+        "name": "Saddle Points",
+        "uuid": "2ffec6c9-0daa-4248-ad2a-e9642254a9cf",
+        "practices": [],
+        "prerequisites": [],
+        "difficulty": 4
       }
     ],
     "foregone": [

exercises/practice/saddle-points/.docs/instructions.md

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+# Instructions
+
+Your task is to find the potential trees where you could build your tree house.
+
+The data company provides the data as grids that show the heights of the trees.
+The rows of the grid represent the east-west direction, and the columns represent the north-south direction.
+
+An acceptable tree will be the largest in its row, while being the smallest in its column.
+
+A grid might not have any good trees at all.
+Or it might have one, or even several.
+
+Here is a grid that has exactly one candidate tree.
+
+```text
+      ↓
+      1  2  3  4
+    |-----------
+  1 | 9  8  7  8
+→ 2 |[5] 3  2  4
+  3 | 6  6  7  1
+```
+
+- Row 2 has values 5, 3, 2, and 4. The largest value is 5.
+- Column 1 has values 9, 5, and 6. The smallest value is 5.
+
+So the point at `[2, 1]` (row: 2, column: 1) is a great spot for a tree house.

exercises/practice/saddle-points/.docs/introduction.md

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+# Introduction
+
+You plan to build a tree house in the woods near your house so that you can watch the sun rise and set.
+
+You've obtained data from a local survey company that show the height of every tree in each rectangular section of the map.
+You need to analyze each grid on the map to find good trees for your tree house.
+
+A good tree is both:
+
+- taller than every tree to the east and west, so that you have the best possible view of the sunrises and sunsets.
+- shorter than every tree to the north and south, to minimize the amount of tree climbing.

exercises/practice/saddle-points/.meta/config.json

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+{
+  "authors": [
+    "rabestro"
+  ],
+  "files": {
+    "solution": [
+      "saddle-points.awk"
+    ],
+    "test": [
+      "test-saddle-points.bats"
+    ],
+    "example": [
+      ".meta/example.awk"
+    ]
+  },
+  "blurb": "Detect saddle points in a matrix.",
+  "source": "J Dalbey's Programming Practice problems",
+  "source_url": "https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html"
+}

exercises/practice/saddle-points/.meta/example.awk

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+NR == 1 {
+    Cols = NF
+    for (i = 1; i<= Cols; i++) {
+        ColsMinimum[i] = $i
+    }
+}
+{
+    row_max = $1
+    for (i = 2; i <= Cols; i++) {
+        if ($i > row_max) row_max = $i
+    }
+    RowsMaximum[NR] = row_max
+
+    for (i = 1; i <= Cols; i++) {
+        if ($i < ColsMinimum[i]) {
+            ColsMinimum[i] = $i
+        }
+    }
+}
+END {
+    for (row = 1; row <= NR; row++) {
+        for (col = 1; col <= Cols; col++) {
+            if (RowsMaximum[row] == ColsMinimum[col]) {
+                print row, col
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

exercises/practice/saddle-points/.meta/tests.toml

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+# This is an auto-generated file.
+#
+# Regenerating this file via `configlet sync` will:
+# - Recreate every `description` key/value pair
+# - Recreate every `reimplements` key/value pair, where they exist in problem-specifications
+# - Remove any `include = true` key/value pair (an omitted `include` key implies inclusion)
+# - Preserve any other key/value pair
+#
+# As user-added comments (using the # character) will be removed when this file
+# is regenerated, comments can be added via a `comment` key.
+
+[3e374e63-a2e0-4530-a39a-d53c560382bd]
+description = "Can identify single saddle point"
+
+[6b501e2b-6c1f-491f-b1bb-7f278f760534]
+description = "Can identify that empty matrix has no saddle points"
+
+[8c27cc64-e573-4fcb-a099-f0ae863fb02f]
+description = "Can identify lack of saddle points when there are none"
+
+[6d1399bd-e105-40fd-a2c9-c6609507d7a3]
+description = "Can identify multiple saddle points in a column"
+
+[3e81dce9-53b3-44e6-bf26-e328885fd5d1]
+description = "Can identify multiple saddle points in a row"
+
+[88868621-b6f4-4837-bb8b-3fad8b25d46b]
+description = "Can identify saddle point in bottom right corner"
+
+[5b9499ca-fcea-4195-830a-9c4584a0ee79]
+description = "Can identify saddle points in a non square matrix"
+
+[ee99ccd2-a1f1-4283-ad39-f8c70f0cf594]
+description = "Can identify that saddle points in a single column matrix are those with the minimum value"
+
+[63abf709-a84b-407f-a1b3-456638689713]
+description = "Can identify that saddle points in a single row matrix are those with the maximum value"