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# Lua Exercises
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This repo contains some Lua exercises along with automated tests for
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solutions. Each file contains a description of the problem and an
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area for a solution as well as the tests.
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## Set Up
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To get started, create a fork of this repo on your own account, then
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clone it, passing the `--recursive` flag. If you already cloned it
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without passing `--recursive`, you can run `git submodule update
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--init` to fix it.
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```sh
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git clone --recursive git@git.wip.sh:<your-username>/lua-exercises.git
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# or
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git clone git@git.wip.sh:<your-username>/lua-exercises.git
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git submodule update --init
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```
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## Doing the Exercises
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It's recommended that you roughly stick to the defined order of the
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exercises, but feel free to deviate if you wish. Some of the
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exercises are relatively easy, whereas some of them (especially the
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last few) are quite challenging; do not be disheartened if solving a
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particular exercise takes you a long time, and feel free to ask for
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help in the Discord server if you feel you are stuck.
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You can define as many functions and constants as you need in the
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solution area. You might find it useful to temporarily comment out
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some of the tests to work through the cases one by one (especially on
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the more complex exercises), but do not modify the test code other
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than this, and make sure all the cases are un-commented again before
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considering the exercise solved.
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To run the tests and check your solution for a given exercise, simply
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run `lua <the-file>`. For example, if you were working on the
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anagrams exercise, you would run `lua 08_anagrams.lua`. For each
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exercise, the tests should run in well under a tenth of a second; if
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it takes longer than this you should try to speed up your solution.
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