8th Track Management

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Practice Exercises

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Practice Exercises are exercises designed to allow students to solve an arbitrary problem, with the aim of them making use of the concepts they have learned so far.

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70 active practice exercises
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Hello World Hello World
3,861
9,667 (avg. 2.5)
629 (16.3%)
0 (0.0%)
Two Fer Two Fer
402
2,417 (avg. 6.0)
74 (18.4%)
8 (2.0%)
Gigasecond Gigasecond
95
217 (avg. 2.3)
45 (47.4%)
1 (1.1%)
Leap Leap
91
558 (avg. 6.1)
53 (58.2%)
1 (1.1%)
Triangle Triangle
45
504 (avg. 11.2)
27 (60.0%)
2 (4.4%)
Trinary (Base-3) Numbers Trinary (Base-3) Numbers
32
311 (avg. 9.7)
26 (81.3%)
0 (0.0%)
Darts Darts
29
167 (avg. 5.8)
24 (82.8%)
3 (10.3%)
Resistor Color Resistor Color
23
94 (avg. 4.1)
19 (82.6%)
3 (13.0%)
Bob Bob
24
171 (avg. 7.1)
19 (79.2%)
0 (0.0%)
Hamming Hamming
75
753 (avg. 10.0)
58 (77.3%)
1 (1.3%)
Raindrops Raindrops
24
59 (avg. 2.5)
17 (70.8%)
0 (0.0%)
Armstrong Numbers Armstrong Numbers
23
132 (avg. 5.7)
18 (78.3%)
0 (0.0%)
Isogram Isogram
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44 (avg. 2.3)
16 (84.2%)
1 (5.3%)
Word Count Word Count
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106 (avg. 5.3)
15 (75.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Acronym Acronym
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83 (avg. 3.5)
16 (66.7%)
1 (4.2%)
Resistor Color Duo Resistor Color Duo
5
8 (avg. 1.6)
4 (80.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Luhn Credit Card Number Checker Luhn Credit Card Number Checker
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278 (avg. 11.6)
19 (79.2%)
1 (4.2%)
Collatz Conjecture Collatz Conjecture
24
83 (avg. 3.5)
22 (91.7%)
1 (4.2%)
Series Series
21
282 (avg. 13.4)
19 (90.5%)
2 (9.5%)
Pangram Pangram
18
62 (avg. 3.4)
15 (83.3%)
1 (5.6%)
Atbash Cipher Atbash Cipher
19
207 (avg. 10.9)
16 (84.2%)
3 (15.8%)
Yacht Yacht
16
302 (avg. 18.9)
15 (93.8%)
2 (12.5%)
Roman Numerals Roman Numerals
18
109 (avg. 6.1)
14 (77.8%)
1 (5.6%)
Reverse string Reverse string
28
116 (avg. 4.1)
23 (82.1%)
2 (7.1%)
Affine Cipher Affine Cipher
15
161 (avg. 10.7)
13 (86.7%)
0 (0.0%)
Pythagorean Triplet Pythagorean Triplet
15
346 (avg. 23.1)
10 (66.7%)
0 (0.0%)
Sieve Sieve
12
97 (avg. 8.1)
8 (66.7%)
0 (0.0%)
ETL ETL
10
32 (avg. 3.2)
9 (90.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Eliud's Eggs Eliud's Eggs
55
299 (avg. 5.4)
52 (94.5%)
1 (1.8%)
Difference of Squares Difference of Squares
8
42 (avg. 5.3)
7 (87.5%)
2 (25.0%)
Matching Brackets Matching Brackets
8
187 (avg. 23.4)
6 (75.0%)
3 (37.5%)
Grains Grains
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15 (avg. 1.9)
5 (62.5%)
0 (0.0%)
RNA Transcription RNA Transcription
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21 (avg. 2.6)
4 (50.0%)
1 (12.5%)
Scrabble Score Scrabble Score
6
35 (avg. 5.8)
3 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Sum of Multiples Sum of Multiples
5
64 (avg. 12.8)
4 (80.0%)
1 (20.0%)
High Scores High Scores
5
27 (avg. 5.4)
4 (80.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Largest Series Product Largest Series Product
6
81 (avg. 13.5)
3 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Pascal's Triangle Pascal's Triangle
6
47 (avg. 7.8)
4 (66.7%)
1 (16.7%)
Perfect Numbers Perfect Numbers
5
70 (avg. 14.0)
3 (60.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Rotational Cipher Rotational Cipher
6
60 (avg. 10.0)
4 (66.7%)
1 (16.7%)
Flatten Array Flatten Array
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18 (avg. 3.0)
3 (50.0%)
1 (16.7%)
Space Age Space Age
5
36 (avg. 7.2)
4 (80.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Square Root Square Root
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21 (avg. 3.0)
3 (42.9%)
0 (0.0%)
Protein Translation Protein Translation
5
101 (avg. 20.2)
4 (80.0%)
1 (20.0%)
Strain Strain
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31 (avg. 6.2)
4 (80.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Nucleotide Count Nucleotide Count
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21 (avg. 4.2)
3 (60.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Matrix Matrix
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23 (avg. 5.8)
2 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
All Your Base All Your Base
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63 (avg. 10.5)
3 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Proverb Proverb
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47 (avg. 9.4)
3 (60.0%)
0 (0.0%)
House House
3
20 (avg. 6.7)
2 (66.7%)
0 (0.0%)
Parallel Letter Frequency Parallel Letter Frequency
5
2 (avg. 0.4)
2 (40.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Allergies Allergies
5
17 (avg. 3.4)
3 (60.0%)
0 (0.0%)
D&D Character D&D Character
4
3 (avg. 0.8)
2 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Meetup Meetup
3
22 (avg. 7.3)
2 (66.7%)
0 (0.0%)
Food Chain Food Chain
5
32 (avg. 6.4)
3 (60.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Bottle Song Bottle Song
5
8 (avg. 1.6)
2 (40.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Binary Search Binary Search
4
9 (avg. 2.3)
3 (75.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Queen Attack Queen Attack
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48 (avg. 8.0)
4 (66.7%)
1 (16.7%)
List Ops List Ops
4
13 (avg. 3.3)
2 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
ISBN Verifier ISBN Verifier
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42 (avg. 10.5)
2 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Secret Handshake Secret Handshake
5
34 (avg. 6.8)
4 (80.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Anagram Anagram
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20 (avg. 4.0)
4 (80.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Spiral Matrix Spiral Matrix
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98 (avg. 19.6)
2 (40.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Kindergarten Garden Kindergarten Garden
3
15 (avg. 5.0)
2 (66.7%)
0 (0.0%)
Diamond Diamond
7
37 (avg. 5.3)
3 (42.9%)
1 (14.3%)
Phone Number Phone Number
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40 (avg. 5.7)
4 (57.1%)
1 (14.3%)
Knapsack Knapsack
4
56 (avg. 14.0)
2 (50.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Prime Factors Prime Factors
3
10 (avg. 3.3)
1 (33.3%)
0 (0.0%)
Run-Length Encoding Run-Length Encoding
3
11 (avg. 3.7)
2 (66.7%)
0 (0.0%)
Circular Buffer Circular Buffer
8
105 (avg. 13.1)
2 (25.0%)
0 (0.0%)
65 unimplemented practice exercises
Alphametics Alphametics
Baffling Birthdays Baffling Birthdays
Bank Account Bank Account
Binary Search Tree Binary Search Tree
Book Store Book Store
Bowling Bowling
Change Change
Clock Clock
Complex Numbers Complex Numbers
Connect Connect
Conway's Game of Life Conway's Game of Life
Crypto Square Crypto Square
Custom Set Custom Set
Dominoes Dominoes
DOT DSL DOT DSL
Error Handling Error Handling
Forth Forth
Go Counting Go Counting
Grade School Grade School
Grep Grep
Hangman Hangman
Intergalactic Transmission Intergalactic Transmission
Killer Sudoku Helper Killer Sudoku Helper
Ledger Ledger
Lens Person Lens Person
Linked List Linked List
Markdown Markdown
Micro Blog Micro Blog
Minesweeper Minesweeper
Nth Prime Nth Prime
OCR Numbers OCR Numbers
PaaS I/O PaaS I/O
Palindrome Products Palindrome Products
Pig Latin Pig Latin
Poker Poker
POV POV
Rail Fence Cipher Rail Fence Cipher
Rational Numbers Rational Numbers
React React
Rectangles Rectangles
Relative Distance Relative Distance
Resistor Color Trio Resistor Color Trio
REST API REST API
Robot Name Robot Name
Robot Simulator Robot Simulator
Saddle Points Saddle Points
Satellite Satellite
Say Say
SGF Parsing SGF Parsing
Simple Cipher Simple Cipher
Simple Linked List Simple Linked List
Split-Second Stopwatch Split-Second Stopwatch
State of Tic-Tac-Toe State of Tic-Tac-Toe
Sublist Sublist
Swift Scheduling Swift Scheduling
Tournament Tournament
Transpose Transpose
Tree Building Tree Building
Twelve Days Twelve Days
Two Bucket Two Bucket
Variable Length Quantity Variable Length Quantity
Word Search Word Search
Wordy Wordy
Zebra Puzzle Zebra Puzzle
Zipper Zipper

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Help manage the tags used to group, filter and recommend solutions, approaches and articles.

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Test Runner

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Create Test Runners that have the single responsibility of taking a solution, running all tests and returning a standardized output.

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Next goal: Get Test Runners to Version 2. 8th is currently utilising a Version 1 Test Runner. Find out more.
Total Test Runner Runs
19,260
Test Run Pass Rate
12.6% (2426)
Test Run Fail Rate
28.1% (5403)
Test Run Error Rate
59.4% (11431)

Representer

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Build a Representer: a bit of code that has the single responsibility of taking a solution and returning a normalized representation of it.

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Analyzer

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Build an Analyzer for 8th: Exercism's analyzers automatically assess student's submissions and provide mentor-style commentary.

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