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data/tracks/objective-c/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.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/exercises/flatten-array/README.md

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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]
+
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/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.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/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?
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/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.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/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.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/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.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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/objective-c/exercises/largest-series-product/README.md

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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.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## 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.

data/tracks/objective-c/exercises/leap/README.md

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+# Leap
+
+Given a year, report if it is a leap year.
+
+The tricky thing here is that a leap year in the Gregorian calendar occurs:
+
+```plain
+on every year that is evenly divisible by 4
+  except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
+    unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400
+```
+
+For example, 1997 is not a leap year, but 1996 is.  1900 is not a leap
+year, but 2000 is.
+
+If your language provides a method in the standard library that does
+this look-up, pretend it doesn't exist and implement it yourself.
+
+## Notes
+
+Though our exercise adopts some very simple rules, there is more to
+learn!
+
+For a delightful, four minute explanation of the whole leap year
+phenomenon, go watch [this youtube video][video].
+
+[video]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX96xng7sAE
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## Source
+
+JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3 [http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp](http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/objective-c/exercises/luhn/README.md

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+# Luhn
+
+Given a number determine whether or not it is valid per the Luhn formula.
+
+The [Luhn algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm) is
+a simple checksum formula used to validate a variety of identification
+numbers, such as credit card numbers and Canadian Social Insurance
+Numbers.
+
+The task is to check if a given string is valid.
+
+Validating a Number
+------
+
+Strings of length 1 or less are not valid. Spaces are allowed in the input,
+but they should be stripped before checking. All other non-digit characters
+are disallowed.
+
+## Example 1: valid credit card number
+
+```
+4539 1488 0343 6467
+```
+
+The first step of the Luhn algorithm is to double every second digit,
+starting from the right. We will be doubling
+
+```
+4_3_ 1_8_ 0_4_ 6_6_
+```
+
+If doubling the number results in a number greater than 9 then subtract 9
+from the product. The results of our doubling:
+
+```
+8569 2478 0383 3437
+```
+
+Then sum all of the digits:
+
+```
+8+5+6+9+2+4+7+8+0+3+8+3+3+4+3+7 = 80
+```
+
+If the sum is evenly divisible by 10, then the number is valid. This number is valid!
+
+## Example 2: invalid credit card number
+
+```
+8273 1232 7352 0569
+```
+
+Double the second digits, starting from the right
+
+```
+7253 2262 5312 0539
+```
+
+Sum the digits
+
+```
+7+2+5+3+2+2+6+2+5+3+1+2+0+5+3+9 = 57
+```
+
+57 is not evenly divisible by 10, so this number is not valid.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## Source
+
+The Luhn Algorithm on Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/objective-c/exercises/meetup/README.md

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+# Meetup
+
+Calculate the date of meetups.
+
+Typically meetups happen on the same day of the week.  In this exercise, you will take
+a description of a meetup date, and return the actual meetup date.
+
+Examples of general descriptions are:
+
+- the first Monday of January 2017
+- the third Tuesday of January 2017
+- the Wednesteenth of January 2017
+- the last Thursday of January 2017
+
+Note that "Monteenth", "Tuesteenth", etc are all made up words. There
+was a meetup whose members realized that there are exactly 7 numbered days in a month that
+end in '-teenth'. Therefore, one is guaranteed that each day of the week
+(Monday, Tuesday, ...) will have exactly one date that is named with '-teenth'
+in every month.
+
+Given examples of a meetup dates, each containing a month, day, year, and descriptor 
+(first, second, teenth, etc), calculate the date of the actual meetup.
+For example, if given "First Monday of January 2017", the correct meetup date is 2017/1/2
+ 
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## Source
+
+Jeremy Hinegardner mentioned a Boulder meetup that happens on the Wednesteenth of every month [https://twitter.com/copiousfreetime](https://twitter.com/copiousfreetime)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/objective-c/exercises/nucleotide-count/README.md

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+# Nucleotide Count
+
+Given a DNA string, compute how many times each nucleotide occurs in the string.
+
+DNA is represented by an alphabet of the following symbols: 'A', 'C',
+'G', and 'T'.
+
+Each symbol represents a nucleotide, which is a fancy name for the
+particular molecules that happen to make up a large part of DNA.
+
+Shortest intro to biochemistry EVAR:
+
+- twigs are to birds nests as
+- nucleotides are to DNA and RNA as
+- amino acids are to proteins as
+- sugar is to starch as
+- oh crap lipids
+
+I'm not going to talk about lipids because they're crazy complex.
+
+So back to nucleotides.
+
+DNA contains four types of them: adenine (`A`), cytosine (`C`), guanine
+(`G`), and thymine (`T`).
+
+RNA contains a slightly different set of nucleotides, but we don't care
+about that for now.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## Source
+
+The Calculating DNA Nucleotides_problem at Rosalind [http://rosalind.info/problems/dna/](http://rosalind.info/problems/dna/)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/objective-c/exercises/pangram/README.md

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+# Pangram
+
+Determine if a sentence is a pangram. A pangram (Greek: παν γράμμα, pan gramma,
+"every letter") is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
+The best known English pangram is: 
+> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
+
+The alphabet used consists of ASCII letters `a` to `z`, inclusive, and is case
+insensitive. Input will not contain non-ASCII symbols.
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## Source
+
+Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

data/tracks/objective-c/exercises/pascals-triangle/README.md

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+# Pascals Triangle
+
+Compute Pascal's triangle up to a given number of rows.
+
+In Pascal's Triangle each number is computed by adding the numbers to
+the right and left of the current position in the previous row.
+
+```plain
+    1
+   1 1
+  1 2 1
+ 1 3 3 1
+1 4 6 4 1
+# ... etc
+```
+
+## Setup
+
+There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
+
+- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
+- Use the ruby gem `objc` as a test runner utility.
+
+Both are described in more detail here: http://exercism.io/languages/objective-c
+
+
+### Submitting Exercises
+
+When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
+
+For example, if you're submitting `Bob.m` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m`.
+
+## Source
+
+Pascal's Triangle at Wolfram Math World [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PascalsTriangle.html](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PascalsTriangle.html)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.