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to Hello World in the Racket Track

Published at May 02 2019 · 0 comments
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Solution

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:

  • 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.

For installation and learning resources, refer to the exercism Racket page.

You can run the provided tests through DrRacket, or via the command line.

To run the test through DrRacket, simply open the test file and click the 'Run' button in the upper right.

To run the test from the command line, run the test from the exercise directory with the following command:

raco test hello-world-test.rkt

which will display the following:

raco test: (submod "hello-world-test.rkt" test)
2 success(es) 0 failure(s) 0 error(s) 2 test(s) run
0
2 tests passed

Source

This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism 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.

hello-world-test.rkt

#lang racket

(require "hello-world.rkt")

(module+ test
  (require rackunit rackunit/text-ui)

  (define suite
    (test-suite
     "hello world tests"

     (test-equal? "returns Hello, World!" (hello) "Hello, World!")))

  (run-tests suite))
#lang racket

(provide hello)

(define (hello) "Hello, World!")

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