Year of Challenges 2017

Hello and welcome to the Year of Programming 2017's challenges repository! Here we will be posting daily periodic challenges for the community to complete.

Challenges

Each challenge will be posted in its own folder, in numbered order. Each challenge folder will have a Challenge.md file describing the challenge, and may have some example code or data provided.

Solutions

To participate, simply fork the repository and then make a folder for your solution, inside the challenge you are solving.

If I am solving the zeroth challenge in Rust, I would work in the folder challenge_0/rust/myrrlyn, to organize solutions by their language and then their author. This allows us to easily browse solutions by language, and compare work!

Submitting Your Work

To submit, open a pull request on the main repository. We'll make sure that merging won't cause any problems, and go from there.

Note: Your solution will not be instantly accepted onto repository. We will be reviewing your code, file formatting and directory structure of your code. If you satisfy the requirements, then we will accept and merge.

Getting Set Up

If you do not have git installed, please do that first.

Note: If you have never used the command line a $ before some text denotes a command and a line following that without the $ denotes the output of that command.

1. Now that you have git installed please open up the command line tool for you operating system.

To confirm that you have git installed type in:

$ git --version
git version 1.9.1

It should respond by showing you the version of git you have installed.

2. Fork the 2017Challenges repository.

Click on the button on the top that says fork.

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You will now have a copy of the 2017Challenges repository in your profile.

3. Clone your fork of the 2017Challenges repository onto your computer.

Click on the green dropdown button titled "Clone or download" and copy the URL there.

Note: I recommend cloning as SSH as it will allow you to use git without constant user authentication. If you are not comfortable with this yet, proceed with HTTPS.

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Open up your command line tool and enter:

Note: Enter the following without the following without the angled brackets (i.e. git clone git@github.com:ManuelMeraz/2017Challenges.git)

$ cd ~
$ git clone <URL that you copied here>
Cloning into '2017Challenges'...
remote: Counting objects: 874, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13/13), done.
remote: Total 874 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 860
Receiving objects: 100% (874/874), 95.41 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (324/324), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

4. Git Configuration

Next we will be configuring your git setup.

Note: Simply replace the text inside the quotation marks with your name and email.

$ cd ~/2017Challenges/
$ git config --global push.default simple
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email "your_email@example.com"
$ git remote add challenges https://github.com/YearOfProgramming/2017Challenges.git

5. Proceeding with a challenge

The challenges will be structured in the following format

README.md                             -> Contains the information in this help page
challenge_0/                          -> challenge_<number>

            README.md                 -> File containing challenge prompt
            r/                        -> lowercase directory with your preferred language. 
            php/                      -> If it does not exist, then create one. 
            python/
            cpp/
            csharp/
            .../
                    /john             -> your username in slack
                    /nick
                    /nancy
                    .../
                    
                           README.md  -> Documentation for your program. Be creative!
                           src/       -> contains your source code

To be continued...