The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".
"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language or environment.
The objectives are simple:
If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.
Execute the tests with:
$ elixir hello_world_test.exs
In the test suites, all but the first test have been skipped.
Once you get a test passing, you can unskip the next one by
commenting out the relevant @tag :pending
with a #
symbol.
For example:
# @tag :pending
test "shouting" do
assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end
Or, you can enable all the tests by commenting out the
ExUnit.configure
line in the test suite.
# ExUnit.configure exclude: :pending, trace: true
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This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program
It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.
if !System.get_env("EXERCISM_TEST_EXAMPLES") do
Code.load_file("hello_world.exs", __DIR__)
end
ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(trace: true)
defmodule HelloWorldTest do
use ExUnit.Case
test "says 'Hello, World!'" do
assert HelloWorld.hello() == "Hello, World!"
end
end
defmodule HelloWorld do
@moduledoc """
Elixir counts the number of arguments as part of the function name.
For instance;
def hello() do
end
would be a completely different function from
def hello(name) do
end
Can you find a way to make all the tests pass with just one
function?
Hint: look into argument defaults here:
http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/modules.html#default-arguments
"""
@doc """
Greets the user by name, or by saying "Hello, World!"
if no name is given.
"""
@spec hello(String.t) :: String.t
def hello(name \\ "World") do
"Hello, " <> name <> "!"
end
end
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