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Programming Exercise: Summary

The document describes a programming exercise to create a point-of-sale scanning system class library that calculates total prices based on per-unit or volume pricing. It provides sample product codes and prices, requirements for the library interface and testing, and sample test cases to validate the total prices for given input sequences.

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Programming Exercise: Summary

The document describes a programming exercise to create a point-of-sale scanning system class library that calculates total prices based on per-unit or volume pricing. It provides sample product codes and prices, requirements for the library interface and testing, and sample test cases to validate the total prices for given input sequences.

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Programming Exercise

Summary:

Implement a solution for the following problem in Node.js, JavaScript or C#.

We are looking for clean, well-factored code.

The submission should be a class library. You can opt to put a user interface on it if you wish, but
we will only be assessing the library portion of your work.

You do not need to provide any form of persistence in this application.

Your solution should contain some way of running automated tests to prove that it works.
Requirements:

Consider a grocery market where items have prices per unit but also volume prices. For example,
Apples may be $1.25 each, or 3 for $3.

Implement a class library for a point-of-sale scanning system that accepts an arbitrary ordering of
products, similar to what would happen at an actual checkout line, then returns the correct total
price for an entire shopping cart based on per-unit or volume prices as applicable.

Here are the products listed by code and the prices to use. There is no sales tax.

Product Code Price


A $1.25 each, or 3 for $3.00
B $4.25
C $1.00 or $5 for a six-pack
D $0.75

The interface at the top-level PointOfSaleTerminal service object should look something like this,
(written in pseudo-code for illustration purposes)

var terminal = new PointOfSaleTerminal()

terminal.SetPricing(...);
terminal.ScanProduct("A");
terminal.ScanProduct("C");
// etc
decimal result = terminal.CalculateTotal();

You are free to define the pricing data model as you see fit.

Here are the minimal inputs you should use for your test cases. These test cases must be shown to
work in your program:

1. Scan these items in this order: ABCDABA


Verify that the total price is $13.25
2. Scan these items in this order: CCCCCCC
Verify that the total price is $6.00
3. Scan these items in this order: ABCD
Verify that the total price is $7.25

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