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* Add meetup exercise

* restructure exercise to use "enum objects" and date comparisons in the tests

* tighten the example code
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glennj committed Sep 19, 2024
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"practices": [],
"prerequisites": [],
"difficulty": 3
},
{
"slug": "meetup",
"name": "Meetup",
"uuid": "398c1590-2e8f-445e-83cb-2b762be63b2b",
"practices": [],
"prerequisites": [],
"difficulty": 5
}
]
},
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# Instructions

Your task is to find the exact date of a meetup, given a month, year, weekday and week.

There are five week values to consider: `first`, `second`, `third`, `fourth`, `last`, `teenth`.

For example, you might be asked to find the date for the meetup on the first Monday in January 2018 (January 1, 2018).

Similarly, you might be asked to find:

- the third Tuesday of August 2019 (August 20, 2019)
- the teenth Wednesday of May 2020 (May 13, 2020)
- the fourth Sunday of July 2021 (July 25, 2021)
- the last Thursday of November 2022 (November 24, 2022)
- the teenth Saturday of August 1953 (August 15, 1953)

## Teenth

The teenth week refers to the seven days in a month that end in '-teenth' (13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th).

If asked to find the teenth Saturday of August, 1953, we check its calendar:

```plaintext
August 1953
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
```

From this we find that the teenth Saturday is August 15, 1953.
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# Introduction

Every month, your partner meets up with their best friend.
Both of them have very busy schedules, making it challenging to find a suitable date!
Given your own busy schedule, your partner always double-checks potential meetup dates with you:

- "Can I meet up on the first Friday of next month?"
- "What about the third Wednesday?"
- "Maybe the last Sunday?"

In this month's call, your partner asked you this question:

- "I'd like to meet up on the teenth Thursday; is that okay?"

Confused, you ask what a "teenth" day is.
Your partner explains that a teenth day, a concept they made up, refers to the days in a month that end in '-teenth':

- 13th (thirteenth)
- 14th (fourteenth)
- 15th (fifteenth)
- 16th (sixteenth)
- 17th (seventeenth)
- 18th (eighteenth)
- 19th (nineteenth)

As there are also seven weekdays, it is guaranteed that each day of the week has _exactly one_ teenth day each month.

Now that you understand the concept of a teenth day, you check your calendar.
You don't have anything planned on the teenth Thursday, so you happily confirm the date with your partner.
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{
"authors": [
"glennj"
],
"files": {
"solution": [
"meetup.coffee"
],
"test": [
"meetup.spec.coffee"
],
"example": [
".meta/example.coffee"
]
},
"blurb": "Calculate the date of meetups.",
"source": "Jeremy Hinegardner mentioned a Boulder meetup that happens on the Wednesteenth of every month"
}
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# these values are the first day of the month that
# qualifies for the "week", except Last which is a sentinel value
Weeks = {
First: 1
Second: 8
Third: 15
Fourth: 22
Teenth: 13
Last: -1
}

# the javascript weekday number
Weekdays = {
Sunday: 0
Monday: 1
Tuesday: 2
Wednesday: 3
Thursday: 4
Friday: 5
Saturday: 6
}

meetup = ({year, month, week, dayofweek}) ->
# Javascript uses 0-based months
# Set hour to 12 to avoid daylight saving problems
date = new Date year, month - 1, 1, 12

if week == Weeks.Last
# The zeroth day of next month is the last day of this month
# The last day minus 6 is the start of the last week
week = new Date(year, month, 0, 12).getDate() - 6

loop
d = date.getDate()
if date.getDay() == dayofweek and d >= week
return Date.UTC date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() + 1, d
date.setDate d + 1

module.exports = {Weeks, Weekdays, meetup}
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