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data/tracks/clojure/exercises/binary-search/README.md

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+# Binary Search
+
+Implement a binary search algorithm.
+
+Searching a sorted collection is a common task. A dictionary is a sorted
+list of word definitions. Given a word, one can find its definition. A
+telephone book is a sorted list of people's names, addresses, and
+telephone numbers. Knowing someone's name allows one to quickly find
+their telephone number and address.
+
+If the list to be searched contains more than a few items (a dozen, say)
+a binary search will require far fewer comparisons than a linear search,
+but it imposes the requirement that the list be sorted.
+
+In computer science, a binary search or half-interval search algorithm
+finds the position of a specified input value (the search "key") within
+an array sorted by key value.
+
+In each step, the algorithm compares the search key value with the key
+value of the middle element of the array.
+
+If the keys match, then a matching element has been found and its index,
+or position, is returned.
+
+Otherwise, if the search key is less than the middle element's key, then
+the algorithm repeats its action on the sub-array to the left of the
+middle element or, if the search key is greater, on the sub-array to the
+right.
+
+If the remaining array to be searched is empty, then the key cannot be
+found in the array and a special "not found" indication is returned.
+
+A binary search halves the number of items to check with each iteration,
+so locating an item (or determining its absence) takes logarithmic time.
+A binary search is a dichotomic divide and conquer search algorithm.
+## Source
+
+Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

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+# Binary Search Tree
+
+Insert and search for numbers in a binary tree.
+
+When we need to represent sorted data, an array does not make a good
+data structure.
+
+Say we have the array `[1, 3, 4, 5]`, and we add 2 to it so it becomes
+`[1, 3, 4, 5, 2]` now we must sort the entire array again! We can
+improve on this by realizing that we only need to make space for the new
+item `[1, nil, 3, 4, 5]`, and then adding the item in the space we
+added. But this still requires us to shift many elements down by one.
+
+Binary Search Trees, however, can operate on sorted data much more
+efficiently.
+
+A binary search tree consists of a series of connected nodes. Each node
+contains a piece of data (e.g. the number 3), a variable named `left`,
+and a variable named `right`. The `left` and `right` variables point at
+`nil`, or other nodes. Since these other nodes in turn have other nodes
+beneath them, we say that the left and right variables are pointing at
+subtrees. All data in the left subtree is less than or equal to the
+current node's data, and all data in the right subtree is greater than
+the current node's data.
+
+For example, if we had a node containing the data 4, and we added the
+data 2, our tree would look like this:
+
+      4
+     /
+    2
+
+If we then added 6, it would look like this:
+
+      4
+     / \
+    2   6
+
+If we then added 3, it would look like this
+
+       4
+     /   \
+    2     6
+     \
+      3
+
+And if we then added 1, 5, and 7, it would look like this
+
+          4
+        /   \
+       /     \
+      2       6
+     / \     / \
+    1   3   5   7
+## Source
+
+Josh Cheek [https://twitter.com/josh_cheek](https://twitter.com/josh_cheek)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/clojure/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.

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+# Bracket Push
+
+Given a string containing brackets `[]`, braces `{}` and parentheses `()`,
+verify that all the pairs are matched and nested correctly.
+## Source
+
+Ginna Baker
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/clojure/exercises/change/README.md

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+# Change
+
+Correctly determine the fewest number of coins to be given to a customer such
+that the sum of the coins' value would equal the correct amount of change.
+
+## For example
+
+- An input of 15 with [1, 5, 10, 25, 100] should return one nickel (5)
+  and one dime (10) or [0, 1, 1, 0, 0]
+- An input of 40 with [1, 5, 10, 25, 100] should return one nickel (5)
+  and one dime (10) and one quarter (25) or [0, 1, 1, 1, 0]
+
+## Edge cases
+
+- Does your algorithm work for any given set of coins?
+- Can you ask for negative change?
+- Can you ask for a change value smaller than the smallest coin value?
+## Source
+
+Software Craftsmanship - Kata-logue [http://craftsmanship.sv.cmu.edu/exercises/coin-change-kata](http://craftsmanship.sv.cmu.edu/exercises/coin-change-kata)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/clojure/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/clojure/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/clojure/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.

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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.

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+# Flatten Array
+
+Take a nested list and return a single flattened list with all values except nil/null.
+
+The challenge is to write a function that accepts an arbitrarily-deep nested list-like structure and returns a flattened structure without any nil/null values.
+ 
+For Example
+
+input: [1,[2,3,null,4],[null],5]
+
+output: [1,2,3,4,5]
+
+## Source
+
+Interview Question [https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Flatten.html](https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Flatten.html)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/clojure/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/clojure/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.

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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/clojure/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.

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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.
+
+### Project Structure
+
+Clojure exercises in exercism use [leiningen](http://leiningen.org/) to configure and run your code
+and use [leiningen standard directory structure](https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/doc/TUTORIAL.md#directory-layout).
+
+You will find a test file named `hello_world_test.clj` inside `test` directory.
+Write your code in `src/hello_world.clj`. It should use the namespace `hello-world` so that tests can pick it up.
+
+### Running tests
+
+Run the tests using `lein test` command and make them pass:
+
+```
+$ lein test
+
+lein test hello-world-test
+
+Ran 3 tests containing 3 assertions.
+0 failures, 0 errors.
+```
+
+Then submit the exercise using:
+
+```
+$ exercism submit src/hello_world.clj
+```
+
+For more detailed instructions and learning resources refer [exercism's clojure language page](http://exercism.io/languages/clojure).
+
+## 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/clojure/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/clojure/exercises/isogram/README.md

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+# Isogram
+
+Determine if a word or phrase is an isogram.
+
+An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a word or phrase without a repeating letter.
+
+Examples of isograms:
+
+- lumberjacks
+- background
+- downstream
+
+The word *isograms*, however, is not an isogram, because the s repeats.
+## Source
+
+Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogram)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/clojure/exercises/kindergarten-garden/README.md

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+# Kindergarten Garden
+
+Given a diagram, determine which plants each child in the kindergarten class is
+responsible for.
+
+The kindergarten class is learning about growing plants. The teachers
+thought it would be a good idea to give them actual seeds, plant them in
+actual dirt, and grow actual plants.
+
+They've chosen to grow grass, clover, radishes, and violets.
+
+To this end, they've put little styrofoam cups along the window sills,
+and planted one type of plant in each cup, choosing randomly from the
+available types of seeds.
+
+```plain
+[window][window][window]
+........................ # each dot represents a styrofoam cup
+........................
+```
+
+There are 12 children in the class:
+
+- Alice, Bob, Charlie, David,
+- Eve, Fred, Ginny, Harriet,
+- Ileana, Joseph, Kincaid, and Larry.
+
+Each child gets 4 cups, two on each row. The children are assigned to
+cups in alphabetical order.
+
+The following diagram represents Alice's plants:
+
+```plain
+[window][window][window]
+VR......................
+RG......................
+```
+
+So in the row nearest the window, she has a violet and a radish; in the
+row behind that, she has a radish and some grass.
+
+Your program will be given the plants from left-to-right starting with
+the row nearest the windows. From this, it should be able to determine
+which plants belong to which students.
+
+For example, if it's told that the garden looks like so:
+
+```plain
+[window][window][window]
+VRCGVVRVCGGCCGVRGCVCGCGV
+VRCCCGCRRGVCGCRVVCVGCGCV
+```
+
+Then if asked for Alice's plants, it should provide:
+
+- Violets, radishes, violets, radishes
+
+While asking for Bob's plants would yield:
+
+- Clover, grass, clover, clover
+## Source
+
+Random musings during airplane trip. [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.

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+# Largest Series Product
+
+Given a string of digits, calculate the largest product for a contiguous
+substring of digits of length n.
+
+For example, for the input `'1027839564'`, the largest product for a
+series of 3 digits is 270 (9 * 5 * 6), and the largest product for a
+series of 5 digits is 7560 (7 * 8 * 3 * 9 * 5).
+
+Note that these series are only required to occupy *adjacent positions*
+in the input; the digits need not be *numerically consecutive*.
+
+For the input `'73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934'`,
+the largest product for a series of 6 digits is 23520.
+## Source
+
+A variation on Problem 8 at Project Euler [http://projecteuler.net/problem=8](http://projecteuler.net/problem=8)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.