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data/tracks/perl5/exercises/bob/README.md

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+# Bob
+
+Bob is a lackadaisical teenager. In conversation, his responses are very limited.
+
+Bob answers 'Sure.' if you ask him a question.
+
+He answers 'Whoa, chill out!' if you yell at him.
+
+He says 'Fine. Be that way!' if you address him without actually saying
+anything.
+
+He answers 'Whatever.' to anything else.
+## Source
+
+Inspired by the 'Deaf Grandma' exercise in Chris Pine's Learn to Program tutorial. [http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06](http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/clock/README.md

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+# Clock
+
+Implement a clock that handles times without dates.
+
+You should be able to add and subtract minutes to it.
+
+Two clocks that represent the same time should be equal to each other.
+## Source
+
+Pairing session with Erin Drummond [https://twitter.com/ebdrummond](https://twitter.com/ebdrummond)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/crypto-square/README.md

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+# Crypto Square
+
+Implement the classic method for composing secret messages called a square code.
+
+Given an English text, output the encoded version of that text.
+
+First, the input is normalized: the spaces and punctuation are removed
+from the English text and the message is downcased.
+
+Then, the normalized characters are broken into rows.  These rows can be
+regarded as forming a rectangle when printed with intervening newlines.
+
+For example, the sentence
+
+> If man was meant to stay on the ground, god would have given us roots.
+
+is normalized to:
+
+> ifmanwasmeanttostayonthegroundgodwouldhavegivenusroots
+
+The plaintext should be organized in to a rectangle.  The size of the
+rectangle (`r x c`) should be decided by the length of the message,
+such that `c >= r` and `c - r <= 1`, where `c` is the number of columns
+and `r` is the number of rows.
+
+Our normalized text is 54 characters long, dictating a rectangle with
+`c = 8` and `r = 7`:
+
+```plain
+ifmanwas
+meanttos
+tayonthe
+groundgo
+dwouldha
+vegivenu
+sroots
+```
+
+The coded message is obtained by reading down the columns going left to
+right.
+
+The message above is coded as:
+
+```plain
+imtgdvsfearwermayoogoanouuiontnnlvtwttddesaohghnsseoau
+```
+
+Output the encoded text in chunks.  Phrases that fill perfect squares
+`(r X r)` should be output in `r`-length chunks separated by spaces.
+Imperfect squares will have `n` empty spaces.  Those spaces should be distributed evenly across the last `n` rows.
+
+```plain
+imtgdvs fearwer mayoogo anouuio ntnnlvt wttddes aohghn sseoau
+```
+
+Notice that were we to stack these, we could visually decode the
+cyphertext back in to the original message:
+
+```plain
+imtgdvs
+fearwer
+mayoogo
+anouuio
+ntnnlvt
+wttddes
+aohghn
+sseoau
+```
+## Source
+
+J Dalbey's Programming Practice problems [http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html](http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/custom-set/README.md

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+# Custom Set
+
+Create a custom set type.
+
+Sometimes it is necessary to define a custom data structure of some
+type, like a set. In this exercise you will define your own set. How it
+works internally doesn't matter, as long as it behaves like a set of
+unique elements.
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/difference-of-squares/README.md

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+# Difference Of Squares
+
+Find the difference between the square of the sum and the sum of the squares of the first N natural numbers.
+
+The square of the sum of the first ten natural numbers is
+(1 + 2 + ... + 10)² = 55² = 3025.
+
+The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is
+1² + 2² + ... + 10² = 385.
+
+Hence the difference between the square of the sum of the first
+ten natural numbers and the sum of the squares of the first ten
+natural numbers is 3025 - 385 = 2640.
+## Source
+
+Problem 6 at Project Euler [http://projecteuler.net/problem=6](http://projecteuler.net/problem=6)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/etl/README.md

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+# Etl
+
+We are going to do the `Transform` step of an Extract-Transform-Load.
+
+### ETL
+Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) is a fancy way of saying, "We have some crufty, legacy data over in this system, and now we need it in this shiny new system over here, so
+we're going to migrate this."
+
+(Typically, this is followed by, "We're only going to need to run this
+once." That's then typically followed by much forehead slapping and
+moaning about how stupid we could possibly be.)
+
+### The goal
+We're going to extract some scrabble scores from a legacy system.
+
+The old system stored a list of letters per score:
+
+- 1 point: "A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "L", "N", "R", "S", "T",
+- 2 points: "D", "G",
+- 3 points: "B", "C", "M", "P",
+- 4 points: "F", "H", "V", "W", "Y",
+- 5 points: "K",
+- 8 points: "J", "X",
+- 10 points: "Q", "Z",
+
+The shiny new scrabble system instead stores the score per letter, which
+makes it much faster and easier to calculate the score for a word. It
+also stores the letters in lower-case regardless of the case of the
+input letters:
+
+- "a" is worth 1 point.
+- "b" is worth 3 points.
+- "c" is worth 3 points.
+- "d" is worth 2 points.
+- Etc.
+
+Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to transform the legacy data
+format to the shiny new format.
+
+### Notes
+
+A final note about scoring, Scrabble is played around the world in a
+variety of languages, each with its own unique scoring table. For
+example, an "E" is scored at 2 in the Māori-language version of the
+game while being scored at 4 in the Hawaiian-language version.
+## Source
+
+The Jumpstart Lab team [http://jumpstartlab.com](http://jumpstartlab.com)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/food-chain/README.md

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+# Food Chain
+
+Generate the lyrics of the song 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'.
+
+While you could copy/paste the lyrics,
+or read them from a file, this problem is much more
+interesting if you approach it algorithmically.
+
+This is a [cumulative song](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_song) of unknown origin.
+
+This is one of many common variants.
+
+```plain
+I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a spider.
+It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
+She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a bird.
+How absurd to swallow a bird!
+She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
+She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a cat.
+Imagine that, to swallow a cat!
+She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
+She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
+She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a dog.
+What a hog, to swallow a dog!
+She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
+She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
+She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
+She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a goat.
+Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
+She swallowed the goat to catch the dog.
+She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
+She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
+She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
+She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a cow.
+I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
+She swallowed the cow to catch the goat.
+She swallowed the goat to catch the dog.
+She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
+She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
+She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
+She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
+I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
+
+I know an old lady who swallowed a horse.
+She's dead, of course!
+```
+## Source
+
+Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/gigasecond/README.md

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+# Gigasecond
+
+Calculate the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds.
+
+A gigasecond is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) seconds.
+## Source
+
+Chapter 9 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. [http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09](http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/grade-school/README.md

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+# Grade School
+
+Given students' names along with the grade that they are in, create a roster
+for the school.
+
+In the end, you should be able to:
+
+- Add a student's name to the roster for a grade
+  - "Add Jim to grade 2."
+  - "OK."
+- Get a list of all students enrolled in a grade
+  - "Which students are in grade 2?"
+  - "We've only got Jim just now."
+- Get a sorted list of all students in all grades.  Grades should sort
+  as 1, 2, 3, etc., and students within a grade should be sorted
+  alphabetically by name.
+  - "Who all is enrolled in school right now?"
+  - "Grade 1: Anna, Barb, and Charlie. Grade 2: Alex, Peter, and Zoe.
+    Grade 3…"
+
+Note that all our students only have one name.  (It's a small town, what
+do you want?)
+
+
+## For bonus points
+
+Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these
+are some additional things you could try:
+
+- If you're working in a language with mutable data structures and your
+  implementation allows outside code to mutate the school's internal DB
+  directly, see if you can prevent this. Feel free to introduce additional
+  tests.
+
+Then please share your thoughts in a comment on the submission. Did this
+experiment make the code better? Worse? Did you learn anything from it?
+## Source
+
+A pairing session with Phil Battos at gSchool [http://gschool.it](http://gschool.it)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/grains/README.md

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+# Grains
+
+Calculate the number of grains of wheat on a chessboard given that the number
+on each square doubles.
+
+There once was a wise servant who saved the life of a prince. The king
+promised to pay whatever the servant could dream up. Knowing that the
+king loved chess, the servant told the king he would like to have grains
+of wheat. One grain on the first square of a chess board. Two grains on
+the next. Four on the third, and so on.
+
+There are 64 squares on a chessboard.
+
+Write code that shows:
+- how many grains were on each square, and
+- the total number of grains
+
+
+## For bonus points
+
+Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these
+are some additional things you could try:
+
+- Optimize for speed.
+- Optimize for readability.
+
+Then please share your thoughts in a comment on the submission. Did this
+experiment make the code better? Worse? Did you learn anything from it?
+## Source
+
+JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 6 [http://www.javaranch.com/grains.jsp](http://www.javaranch.com/grains.jsp)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/hamming/README.md

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+# Hamming
+
+Calculate the Hamming difference between two DNA strands.
+
+A mutation is simply a mistake that occurs during the creation or
+copying of a nucleic acid, in particular DNA. Because nucleic acids are
+vital to cellular functions, mutations tend to cause a ripple effect
+throughout the cell. Although mutations are technically mistakes, a very
+rare mutation may equip the cell with a beneficial attribute. In fact,
+the macro effects of evolution are attributable by the accumulated
+result of beneficial microscopic mutations over many generations.
+
+The simplest and most common type of nucleic acid mutation is a point
+mutation, which replaces one base with another at a single nucleotide.
+
+By counting the number of differences between two homologous DNA strands
+taken from different genomes with a common ancestor, we get a measure of
+the minimum number of point mutations that could have occurred on the
+evolutionary path between the two strands.
+
+This is called the 'Hamming distance'.
+
+It is found by comparing two DNA strands and counting how many of the
+nucleotides are different from their equivalent in the other string.
+
+    GAGCCTACTAACGGGAT
+    CATCGTAATGACGGCCT
+    ^ ^ ^  ^ ^    ^^
+
+The Hamming distance between these two DNA strands is 7.
+
+# Implementation notes
+
+The Hamming distance is only defined for sequences of equal length. This means
+that based on the definition, each language could deal with getting sequences
+of equal length differently.
+## Source
+
+The Calculating Point Mutations problem at Rosalind [http://rosalind.info/problems/hamm/](http://rosalind.info/problems/hamm/)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/hello-world/README.md

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+# Hello World
+
+The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".
+
+["Hello, World!"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program) is
+the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language
+or environment.
+
+The objectives are simple:
+
+- Write a function that returns the string "Hello, World!".
+- Run the test suite and make sure that it succeeds.
+- Submit your solution and check it at the website.
+
+If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.
+## Source
+
+This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/hexadecimal/README.md

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+# Hexadecimal
+
+Convert a hexadecimal number, represented as a string (e.g. "10af8c"), to its decimal equivalent using first principles (i.e. no, you may not use built-in or external libraries to accomplish the conversion).
+
+On the web we use hexadecimal to represent colors, e.g. green: 008000,
+teal: 008080, navy: 000080).
+
+The program should handle invalid hexadecimal strings.
+## Source
+
+All of Computer Science [http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/NumberBases.html](http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/NumberBases.html)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/perl5/exercises/house/README.md

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+# House
+
+Output the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'.
+
+> [The] process of placing a phrase of clause within another phrase of
+> clause is called embedding. It is through the processes of recursion
+> and embedding that we are able to take a finite number of forms (words
+> and phrases) and construct an infinite number of expressions.
+> Furthermore, embedding also allows us to construct an infinitely long
+> structure, in theory anyway.
+
+- [papyr.com](http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ph_noun.htm)
+
+
+The nursery rhyme reads as follows:
+
+```plain
+This is the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the maiden all forlorn
+that milked the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the man all tattered and torn
+that kissed the maiden all forlorn
+that milked the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the priest all shaven and shorn
+that married the man all tattered and torn
+that kissed the maiden all forlorn
+that milked the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the rooster that crowed in the morn
+that woke the priest all shaven and shorn
+that married the man all tattered and torn
+that kissed the maiden all forlorn
+that milked the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the farmer sowing his corn
+that kept the rooster that crowed in the morn
+that woke the priest all shaven and shorn
+that married the man all tattered and torn
+that kissed the maiden all forlorn
+that milked the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+
+This is the horse and the hound and the horn
+that belonged to the farmer sowing his corn
+that kept the rooster that crowed in the morn
+that woke the priest all shaven and shorn
+that married the man all tattered and torn
+that kissed the maiden all forlorn
+that milked the cow with the crumpled horn
+that tossed the dog
+that worried the cat
+that killed the rat
+that ate the malt
+that lay in the house that Jack built.
+```
+## Source
+
+British nursery rhyme [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_The_House_That_Jack_Built](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_The_House_That_Jack_Built)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.