darts: Unnecessary complication of exercise by using method without parameters

[JanB1]

The exercise "Darts" is categorised in the "Conditionals If" exercises and is categorised as "easy".

While the exercise itself is indeed easy, the use of a 'score' method without parameters and thus the necessity to write a constructor is making the exercise more complicated to understand than it needs to be.

Especially as other, similar exercises just expect the student to write a method that uses parameters given.

Is there a reason why this simple exercise uses an approach that differs from this?

[andrerfcsantos]

I agree we should simplify this.

So the task here is to have the exercise just require static methods instead of requiring the building of a new object and putting a method on it. Anyone is welcome to open a PR with this change.

[JanB1]

I think a different approach would be to instead let the user write a method that calculates the score using methods where the x and y position is passed as an argument, instead of pulling it from the object as a field.

The object creation and call of the methods with the proper arguments would more or less stay the same.

See the bird watcher tests for example.

[andrerfcsantos]

@JanB1 I see, that works too :)

[jennylia]

is anyone working on this issue actively?

[andrerfcsantos]

@jennylia I don't think so, feel free to take this.

[jennylia]

yea I'll give it a try.

[jennylia]

https://github.com/exercism/java/pull/2180/files is my PR. Please also tag me for hacktoberfest thank you very much

[kerolloz]

@andrerfcsantos

This issue should be closed.

[andrerfcsantos]

@kerolloz Indeed, thanks for the reminder.