Abstraction And Reuse

Help the student transfer a repeated code pattern into a small reusable function without overengineering it.

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Student context

Partial Understanding

Current student message

“I copied the same three lines four times. Should I build a large class to fix it?”

Problem context

The repeated code has one changing input and one repeated operation.

Learning objective

Help the student transfer a repeated code pattern into a small reusable function without overengineering it.

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Conversation history

No prior conversation. This case starts with the current student message.

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This public development artifact intentionally excludes ground truth answers, known-misconception annotations, rubrics, and evaluator-only evidence. A future hidden challenge dataset must use the same fail-closed serialization boundary.