Welcome to Toy Problems. This repository will be updated every morning with a new code challenge.
Feel free to use Google to aid you in solving the coding challenges!
You'll find each day's toy problem in its own folder.
If you haven't already, fork the repository on GitHub and clone your newly created repo down to your computer.
Spectator supports ES2015+ by transpiling files with Babel. Any JavaScript feature included in the latest preset can be used in a toy problem. The tradeoff for this support is that error messages can sometimes be a bit more obscure and/or line numbers in the stack trace don't map precisely to their original line numbers.
If this is not an acceptable tradeoff, you can write only ES5 code create a spectator.json
file in the root of the problem directory that looks like this:
{
"babel": false
}
VERY IMPORTANT: Before submitting your solutions, find and fix all syntax errors
Solutions are submitted via Pull Request. Follow these steps:
- From your fork, select
Pull Requests
and then create aNew pull request
. - STOP. Before you
Click to create a pull request for this comparison
you must adjust the target branch (akabase branch
) to be your username. Once chagned, the pull-request heading should look like this:
hackreactor:username ... username:master
- Copy and paste the completed Grading Outline into the comment block of your Pull Request.
- Click
Send pull request
Every morning, when a new toy problem is added, you'll need to sync your version of the repo with hackreactor's. Git won't automatically pull in upstream changes for you; it trusts that you'll pull them in as needed. Do so by giving Git a reference to hackreactor's version of the repo:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/hackreactor/YYYY-MM-toy-problems.git
Be sure to substitue
YYYY-MM
with your actual cohort prefix! (ex: 2015-05)
After you've done that, updating your repo is as simple as running the following:
git checkout master // Your fork's master branch
git pull upstream master // Your class's master branch
This will check out your branch and tell git to grab any changes made to the main repository and merge them into your branch.
You may encounter a scenario where Spectator will not merge your pull request. This often happens as a result of your upstream branch becoming out of sync with your local copy. To resolve this problem, run:
git pull upstream <your-branch-name>
Resolve any conflicts, merge, commit and push. You will then be able to submit a Pull Request that will get correctly merged.