robot-name approach: fix typos, minor rephrasing/improvements (#4051)

* robot-name approach: fix typos, minor rephasing/improvements

- Fixed a few typos.
- Rephrased here and there where I subjectively thought it useful. Please let me know if
 they're undesirable.
- Expanded some contractions - this might help non-native speakers.
- When another approach is mentioned, added link to it - hopefully this is useful rather
  than an distraction
- I thought the explanation about the alternative to using the walrus operator was not
  clear, so rephrased and added a code snippet. I hope this is useful.

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exercises/practice/robot-name/.approaches/introduction.md

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 # Introduction
-Robot Name in Python is an interesting exercise for practising randomness.
+
+Robot Name in Python is an interesting exercise for practicing randomness.
 
 ## General Guidance
-Two ways immedietely come to mind: generate all the possible names and then return them sequentially, or generate a random name and ensure that it's not been previously used.
+
+Two ways immediately come to mind: generate all the possible names and then return them sequentially, or generate a random name and ensure that it has not been previously used.
 
 Randomness can be a little, well, random, so **it's very easy to have an incorrect solution and still pass the tests**. It's strongly recommended to submit your solution for Code Review.
 
 ## Approach: mass name generation
+
 We'd first have to generate all the possible names, shuffle them, and then use `next` (the simplest way) or maintain a `current_index` and get the name.
 Here's a possible way to do it:
 
@@ -26,14 +29,17 @@ class Robot(object):
     def reset(self):
         self.name = next(NAMES)
 ```
+
 Note that selecting randomly from the list of all names would be incorrect, as there's a possibility of the name being repeated.
 For more detail and explanation of the code, [read here][approach-mass-name-generation].
 
 ## Approach: name on the fly
-Another approach is to generate the name on the fly and add it to a cache or a store, and checking if the generated name hasn't been used previously.
+
+Another approach is to generate the name on the fly and add it to a cache or a store, checking if the generated name hasn't been used previously.
 
 
 A possible way to implement this:
+
 ```python
 from string import ascii_uppercase, digits
 from random import choices

exercises/practice/robot-name/.approaches/mass-name-generation/content.md

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Mass Name Generation
-We'd first have to generate all the possible names, shuffle them, and then use `next` (the simplest way) or maintain a `current_index` and get the name.
-Note that selecting randomly from the list of all names would be incorrect, as there's a possibility of the name being repeated.
 
-Here's a possible way to do it:
+We first generate all the possible names, shuffle them, and then either use `next` (the simplest way) or maintain a `current_index` to get the name.
+Note that selecting randomly from the list of all names would be incorrect, as there is a possibility of the name being repeated.
+
+One possible way to do it:
 
 ```python
 from itertools import product
@@ -25,25 +26,27 @@ class Robot(object):
 
 The first few lines of the mass name generation uses [`itertools.product`][itertools-product].
 The resultant code is a simplification of:
+
 ```python
 letter_pairs = (''.join((l1, l2)) for l1 in ascii_uppercase for l2 in ascii_uppercase)
 numbers = (str(i).zfill(3) for i in range(1000))
 names = [l + n for l in letter_pairs for n in numbers]
 ```
 
-After the name generation, the names are shuffled - using the [default `seed`][random-seed] in the `random` module (the current timestamp). 
+After the name generation, the names are shuffled - using the [default `seed`][random-seed] in the `random` module (the current timestamp).
 When the tests reseed `random`, this has no effect as the names were shuffled before that.
 
-We then set `NAMES` to the iterable of names, and in `reset`, set the robot's name to the  `next(name)`. 
-If you'd like, read more on [`iter` and `next`][iter-and-next].
+We then set `NAMES` to the iterable of names, and in `reset`, set the robot's name to the  `next(name)`.
+If you are interested, you can read more on [`iter` and `next`][iter-and-next].
 
-Unlike the on the fly approach, this has a relatively short "generation" time, because we're merely giving the `next` name instead of generating it.
-However, this has a huge startup memory and time cost, as 676,000 strings have to be calculated and stored. 
+Unlike the [on the fly approach][approach-name-on-the-fly], this has a relatively short "generation" time, because we are merely giving the `next` name instead of generating it.
+However, this has a huge startup memory and time cost, as 676,000 strings have to be calculated and stored.
 For an approximate calculation, 676,000 strings * 5 characters / string * 1 byte / character gives 3380000 bytes or 3.38 MB of RAM - and that's just the memory aspect of it.
-Sounds small, but it's relatively very expensive at the beginning.
+Sounds small, but this might be a relatively significant startup cost.
 
 Thus, this approach is inefficient in cases where only a small number of names are needed _and_ the time to set/reset the robot isn't crucial.
 
 [random-seed]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#random.seed
 [iter-and-next]: https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/methods/built-in/iter
 [itertools-product]: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/itertools-product/problem
+[approach-name-on-the-fly]: https://exercism.org/tracks/python/exercises/robot-name/approaches/name-on-the-fly

exercises/practice/robot-name/.approaches/name-on-the-fly/content.md

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # Find name on the fly
-We generate the name on the fly and add it to a cache or a store, and checking if the generated name hasn't been used previously.
+
+We generate the name on the fly and add it to a cache or a store, checking to make sure that the generated name has not been used previously.
 
 A possible way to implement this:
+
 ```python
 from string import ascii_uppercase, digits
 from random import choices
@@ -10,7 +12,7 @@ cache = set()
 
 
 class Robot:
-    def __get_name(self): 
+    def __get_name(self):
         return ''.join(choices(ascii_uppercase, k=2) + choices(digits, k=3))
 
     def reset(self):
@@ -19,18 +21,30 @@ class Robot:
         cache.add(name)
         self.name = name
 
-    def __init__(self): 
+    def __init__(self):
         self.reset()
 ```
-We use a `set` for the cache as it has a low access time, and we don't need the preservation of order or the ability to be indexed.
 
-This way is merely one of the many to generate the name. 
+We use a `set` for the cache as it has a low access time, and because we do not need the preservation of order or the ability to access by index.
+
+Using `choices` is one of the many ways to generate the name.
 Another way might be to use `randrange` along with `zfill` for the number part, and a double `random.choice` / `random.choice` on `itertools.product` to generate the letter part.
-This is the shortest way, and best utilizes the Python standard library.
+The first is shorter, and best utilizes the Python standard library.
+
+As we are using a `while` loop to check for the name generation, it is convenient to store the local `name` using the [walrus operator][walrus-operator].
+It's also possible to find the name once before the loop, and then find it again inside the loop, but that would be an unnecessary repetition:
+
+```python
+def reset(self):
+    name = self.__get_name()
+    while name in cache:
+        name = self.__get_name()
+    cache.add(name)
+    self.name = name
+```
 
-As we're using a `while` loop to check for the name generation, it's convenient to store the local `name` using the [walrus operator][walrus-operator].
-It's also possible to find the name before the loop and find it again inside the loop, but that would unnecessary repetition.
 A helper method ([private][private-helper-methods] in this case) makes your code cleaner, but it's equally valid to have the code in the loop itself:
+
 ```python
 def reset(self):
     while (name := ''.join(choices(ascii_uppercase, k=2) + choices(digits, k=3))) in cache:
@@ -39,14 +53,15 @@ def reset(self):
     self.name = name
 ```
 
-We call `reset` from `__init__` - it's syntactically valid to do it the other way round, but it's not considered good practice to call [dunder methods][dunder-methods] directly.
+We call `reset` from `__init__` - it is syntactically valid to do it the other way around, but it is not considered good practice to call [dunder methods][dunder-methods] directly.
 
 This has almost no startup time and memory, apart from declaring an empty `set`.
-Note that the _generation_ time is the same as the mass generation approach, as a similar method is used.
+Note that the _generation_ time is the same as the [mass generation approach][approach-mass-name-generation], as a similar method is used.
 However, as the name is generated at the time of setting/resetting, the method time itself is higher.
 
-In the long run, if many names are generated, this is inefficient, since collisions will start being generated more often than unique names. 
+In the long run, if many names are generated, this is inefficient, since collisions will start being generated more often than unique names.
 
 [walrus-operator]: https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/
 [private-helper-methods]: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/private-methods-in-python/
-[dunder-methods]: https://dbader.org/blog/python-dunder-methods
+[dunder-methods]: https://dbader.org/blog/python-dunder-methods
+[approach-mass-name-generation]: https://exercism.org/tracks/python/exercises/robot-name/approaches/mass-name-generation