Coding Challenge

This coding challenge aims to test your programming knowledge, ideally in two stages: before reading the content of this website and after reading it. This challenge shouldn’t take you much time, but doing it well would demonstrate advanced programming concepts. Here we go!

Instructions

You are a (senior?) developer who creates proofs of concept (POC) for the company “Writing Pretty Code LLC,” and you have been given the following task:

Write a Python program that, given two sides of a right triangle, calculates the length of the third side. The program must run via the command line but must be structured in a way that is easily migratable to a more complex system. Since the idea is to incorporate this code into another complex system as soon as possible, we need it to have tests that guarantee correct functionality. Additionally, assume that performing mathematical calculations is expensive: an addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc., takes 10 minutes.

Reminder

Ideally, you should do this coding challenge twice: before reading the website and after reading it. Furthermore, the idea is to demonstrate that you know advanced programming concepts, so the goal of the code is to prove to yourself what you know, not just to have a program that returns 5 when it receives the values 3 and 4.

Time to code!

Solution

If you have already programmed the script twice and learned a lot by reading the website, the difference between one version and the other should be abysmal.

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