Create stub files for all exercises

kytrinyx commented 5 years ago

We have decided to require all file-based tracks to provide stubs for their exercises.

The lack of stub file generates an unnecessary pain point within Exercism, contributing a significant proportion of support requests, making things more complex for our students, and hindering our ability to automatically run test-suites and provide automated analysis of solutions.

We believe that it’s essential to understand error messages, know how to use an IDE, and create files. However, getting this right as you’re just getting used to a language can be a frustrating distraction, as it can often require a lot of knowledge that tends to seep in over time. At the start, it can be challenging to google for all of these details: what file extension to use, what needs to be included, etc. Getting people up to speed with these things are not Exercism’s focus, and we’ve decided that we are better served by removing this source of confusion, letting people get on with actually solving the exercises.

The original discussion for this is at https://github.com/exercism/discussions/issues/238.

Therefore, we’d like this track to provide a stub file for each exercise.

If this track already provides stub files for all exercises, please close this issue.
If this track already has an open issue for creating stubs, then my apologies. Please close one as a duplicate.
Otherwise, please respond to this issue with useful details about what needs to be done to complete this task in this track so that people who are not familiar with the track may easily contribute.

Average-user commented 4 years ago

@kytrinyx Apologies but I haven't been able to figure out what exactly do you mean with stubs files.

neenjaw commented 4 years ago

Like an exercise template, so for queen-attack it might be like:

% queen_attack.pl

create((X,Y)) :-
  fail. % remove this line and insert your own predicates

attack(QueenA, QueenB) :-
  fail. % remove this like and insert your own code

Average-user commented 4 years ago

We currently have

% Please visit https://exercism.io/tracks/prolog/installation
% for instructions on setting up prolog.
% Visit https://exercism.io/tracks/prolog/tests
% for help running the tests for prolog exercises.

% Replace the goal below with
% your implementation.

create(false).

attack(false).

Does this count?

neenjaw commented 4 years ago

Ya I think so, the code owners have the ability to push an issue out to all the language repos, so I don;t think it was something meant specifically for this repo, but a broad cast to them all to create stubs.

Average-user commented 4 years ago

I know. Just checking if this can be closed. Thanks

exercism / prolog

Create stub files for all exercises #88