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39 changes: 39 additions & 0 deletions 20_hanoi/README.md
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# Exercise 20 - hanoi

Good job, you have come a very long way. You should be proud of yourself for making it this far. At this point, you hopefully feel comfortable
with recursion, and so, this **final recursive exercise** should give you a proper challenge and take your abilities to the _next_ level.

Tower of Hanoi is a classic challenge in which we have 3 towers. Tower 2 and tower 3 are empty.
Tower 1 has `n` disks. The goal is to move all disks from tower 1 to tower 3 so that they are exactly the in the same order. For instance:

```javascript
[[3, 2, 1], [], []]

// ...

[[], [], [3, 2, 1]]
```

The rules are as follows:
- Each disk has a length. For abstraction purposes, we will imagine each disk as an integer with that disks' length.
- We can only move 1 disk at a time between any of the towers
- The towers are modelled as stacks. We can move disks from the top and add them to the top with the `Array.prototype.pop` and `Array.prototype.push` methods.
- **Disks can only be placed on top of disks that are smaller**. For instance, we cannot have the following tower: `[3, 4]`. It would violate the rules

Your task is to create a function, `hanoi`, that when given an integer `n` will perform the required operations to transport all the numbers from the `first tower`
onto the `third tower`.

For example, lets say we had given this function `3`, it will then output the Tower of Hanoi solution as a series of steps:

```
[
[[3, 2, 1], [], []],
[[3, 2], [], [1]],
[[3], [2], [1]],
[[3], [2, 1], []],
[[], [2, 1], [3]],
[[1], [2], [3]],
[[1], [], [3, 2]],
[[], [], [3, 2, 1]],
]
```
6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions 20_hanoi/hanoi.js
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const hanoi = function() {

};

// Do not edit below this line
module.exports = hanoi;
15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions 20_hanoi/hanoi.spec.js
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const hanoi = require('./hanoi');

describe('hanoi', () => {
test('First test description', () => {
// Replace this comment with any other necessary code, and update the expect line as necessary

expect(hanoi()).toBe('');
});

test.skip('Second test description', () => {
// Replace this comment with any other necessary code, and update the expect line as necessary

expect(hanoi()).toBe('');
});
});
29 changes: 29 additions & 0 deletions 20_hanoi/solution/hanoi-solution.js
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const hanoi = function (
n,
fromTowerIndex = 0,
storageTowerIndex = 1,
toTowerIndex = 2,
towers = [
Array(n)
.fill() // Array function creates an array with "empty" slots which map does not iterate over
.map((_, i) => n - i),
[],
[],
],
steps = [towers.map((tower) => [...tower])],
) {
if (n === 0) return steps;

hanoi(n - 1, fromTowerIndex, toTowerIndex, storageTowerIndex, towers, steps);

towers[toTowerIndex].push(towers[fromTowerIndex].pop());

steps.push(towers.map((tower) => [...tower]));

hanoi(n - 1, storageTowerIndex, fromTowerIndex, toTowerIndex, towers, steps);

return steps;
};

// Do not edit below this line
module.exports = hanoi;
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const hanoi = require("./hanoi-solution");

describe("hanoi", () => {
test("hanoi(1) should solve the puzzle in 1 move", () => {
const result = hanoi(1);
expect(result).toEqual([
[[1], [], []],
[[], [], [1]],
]);
expect(result.length).toBe(2);
});

test("hanoi(2) should solve the puzzle in 3 moves", () => {
const result = hanoi(2);
expect(result).toEqual([
[[2, 1], [], []],
[[2], [1], []],
[[], [1], [2]],
[[], [], [2, 1]],
]);
expect(result.length).toBe(4);
});

test("hanoi(3) should solve the puzzle in 7 moves", () => {
const result = hanoi(3);
expect(result).toEqual([
[[3, 2, 1], [], []],
[[3, 2], [], [1]],
[[3], [2], [1]],
[[3], [2, 1], []],
[[], [2, 1], [3]],
[[1], [2], [3]],
[[1], [], [3, 2]],
[[], [], [3, 2, 1]],
]);
expect(result.length).toBe(8);
});

test("hanoi(4) should solve the puzzle in 15 moves", () => {
const result = hanoi(4);
const expected = [
[[4, 3, 2, 1], [], []],
[[4, 3, 2], [1], []],
[[4, 3], [1], [2]],
[[4, 3], [], [2, 1]],
[[4], [3], [2, 1]],
[[4, 1], [3], [2]],
[[4, 1], [3, 2], []],
[[4], [3, 2, 1], []],
[[], [3, 2, 1], [4]],
[[], [3, 2], [4, 1]],
[[2], [3], [4, 1]],
[[2, 1], [3], [4]],
[[2, 1], [], [4, 3]],
[[2], [1], [4, 3]],
[[], [1], [4, 3, 2]],
[[], [], [4, 3, 2, 1]],
];
expect(result).toEqual(expected);
});
});