jeremy-kimball / launchelectionday

Election Day

Preparation

• Fork this Repository
• Clone YOUR fork
• Compete as many itarations as time allows
• Push your solution to your fork
• Send a link to your fork to your instructors (this is not graded, but we want to see how far folks got)

Iteration 1

Create a Candidate class that responds to the following interaction pattern. There are also tests you should run to check that your code works as expected!

var diana = new Candidate("Diana D", "Democrat");

Console.WriteLine(diana.Name);
=> "Diana D"

Console.WriteLine(diana.Party);
=> "Democrat"

Console.WriteLine(diana.Votes);
=> 0

diana.VoteFor();
diana.VoteFor();
diana.VoteFor();

Console.WriteLine(diana.Votes);
=> 3

Iteration 2 (Your goal is to complete through this iteration!)

Create a Race class that responds to the following interaction pattern.

The RegisterCandidate method must take a Candidate object as an argument and doesn't return anything.

var race = new Race("City Council District 10");

race.Office
=> "City Council District 10"

race.Candidates
=> []

var diana = new Candidate("Diana D", "Democrat");
race.RegisterCandidate(diana);

race.Candidates
=> [#<Candidate:0x00007f9edf376c90...>]

Iteration 3 (Hungry for more exercise, it's not expected you'll get here)

Create an Election class that satisfies the following requirements.

You have been contacted by the local government to create a program that helps track their elections by organizing registered candidates and their votes.

Method Name	Return Value
new (the constructor)	An Election object that has an attribute of year (string data type).
GetYear	The year of the election (string).
GetRaces	An list of Race objects.
AddRace(race)	An list of Race objects.
GetAllCandidates	An list of all Candidate objects in the election.
GetVoteCounts	A dictionary with each candidate's name as a key and their count of votes as the value.

Iteration 4 (A very hungry for more exercise, it's not expected you'll get here)

Add the following methods on the Race class. You may need to add additional property(s) to implement this functionality.

The local government agency has contacted you about compiling addition information about each of the races.

Method Name	Return Value
IsOpen	A boolean indicating whether the race is open or not. A race should be open by default.
Close	Close the race (should no longer be open).
GetWinner	false if the race is still open. It should return the candidate with the most votes if not open. If there is a tie, it should return any candidate with the highest number of votes.
IsTie	A boolean indicating if two or more candidates received the highest number of votes.