Creating a FunC Language Track on Exercism.org

[SwiftAdviser]

Summary

This project is about creating a FunC language track on Exercism, an open-source code-academy-like platform. The project will involve creating a FunC language repository, a test runner, and a first lesson on the Exercism platform which supports 62 languages. Let's add FunC as 63rd!

Context

Exercism is an open-source platform that provides users with code tutorials in various development languages.

• Platform: https://exercism.org/
• GitHub organization: https://github.com/exercism

Currently, it does not provide tutorials for the FunC language, which is used to write smart contracts on the TON Blockchain. To remedy this situation, you could create a FunC language track on Exercism with a first lesson “Hello World” hosted on the platform.

Example

You can use the Rust language track for inspiration.

• Here is an example of a Rust language track: https://exercism.org/tracks/rust
• Here is an example of a GitHub repository for Rust language: https://github.com/exercism/rust
• Here is an example of a GitHub repository for checking Rust solutions for validity (test runner): https://github.com/exercism/rust-test-runner

Goals

• The goal of this project is to create an infrastructure similar to Rust’s for FunC language

Deliverables

• FunC language repository with "Hello World" lesson
• A test runner for validating solutions (using TypeScript, for example)
• Hosted FunC language track on Exercism

Definition of Done

• Hosted FunC language track on Exercism with "Hello World" working example

Reward

• Standard TON Footstep NFT
• 1000 USD in TON

[chakzefir]

Description of the footstep covers only one "Hello World" lesson. Should we add minimal number of lessons to DOD or it's not implied in this footstep?

[SwiftAdviser]

@chakzefir Yes, this footstep is focused only on the infrastructure for future lessons. So Hello World is one example for that.

[chakzefir]

I've created post, would be nice to get some likes and comments there. This is first step create a new track.

https://forum.exercism.org/t/create-new-track-for-func/3933

[SwiftAdviser]

I've created post, would be nice to get some likes and comments there. This is first step create a new track.

https://forum.exercism.org/t/create-new-track-for-func/3933

Cool! Thank you!!!

[chakzefir]

@SwiftAdviser seems like during discussion there I've done a commitment to Excercism 😁

So you could assign me here

[SwiftAdviser]

Hey @chakzefir, any updates? 🙂

[coalus]

Hey guys! Any updates here? If u dont mind, i would like to work on this footstep

[delovoyhomie]

@chakzefir, are you here?

[chakzefir]

Hey there sorry folks for getting lost, I've been using different github account. Let me try to resurrect this bootstrap task, if next week here will be no success I'll let you know to find somebody else for this.

[delovoyhomie]

@chakzefir, will you be able to continue the work further?

[coalus]

Hey guys! Any updates here?

If no, i would like to start working on this footstep

[chakzefir]

Hey, sorry for being missed for this time. I've actually finished with basic repo for hello world, I just didn't upload it.

I can try to upload this to this topic and see what they will say https://forum.exercism.org/t/create-new-track-for-func/3933/7

Anyway, would be happy to share or reassign continuation of this footstep to @coalus @delovoyhomie up to you

[chakzefir]

Now waiting for the exercism moderators answer http://forum.exercism.org/t/create-new-track-for-func/3933/8

[chakzefir]

Still in discussion to clarify the track and publish it. More details in thread on exercism forum

[chakzefir]

Still waiting for response on new track initialisation. They try to make the whole track out classic tricky algorythmic tasks, while I find this not comprehensive to give for newcomers. So our discussion is about the type of lessons and tasks.

[delovoyhomie]

@Chakzefir, let's publish a track. Why does the discussion last so long?

https://forum.exercism.org/t/create-new-track-for-func/3933/14

[chakzefir]

Discussed in personal messages in Telegram. Looking for Erik Schierboom to get the final approval and publish the course.

[delovoyhomie]

We, @chakzefir and I, have been working for a long time to create a FunC track, so I can confidently say that it deserves an award and can be assigned to the footstep.

[chakzefir]

Erik finally gave an answer (kind ping in X helped).

So, seems like to publish the track it's required to "implement at least 20+ Practice Exercises". Available practice exercises listed here.

We have several options:

1. Try to convince to start the track different way (IMO it's wasting of time)
2. Close this footstep and create new one or several to solve at least 20 exercises
3. Extend this footstep and decompose it by steps and create Func solutions for 20 exercises.

"Hello world" and initial preparation for the tracks is done, so I think we can complete this one and create consequent footstep and decompose it by steps. I'm happy to help with communication and publishing of the whole track, but we need to attract more developers to make a Func solution of exercises and put them in track.

@delovoyhomie wdyt?

[delovoyhomie]

@chakzefir, could you prepare a track with 20 milestones here, for each of which a reward will be assigned? I would like you to finish this footstep with a revised reward.

[delovoyhomie]

@yash0501, this footstep and #294 are very similar and could you please do the same things in footstep #294, as I described in the comment above?

[yash0501]

Yeah sure @delovoyhomie. I got the repo set up by exercism for Tact track and would be completing the hello world and then creating a list of problem statements that we can do for this track from this pool of problems.

[delovoyhomie]

https://github.com/exercism/func

[yash0501]

https://github.com/exercism/tact This is the tact repository

[chakzefir]

This week I have hard schedule, so I created only draft, next week I will finish and publish it here.

[chakzefir]

Context

Based on the rules of Exercism community, every new language learn track must have at least 20 Practice Exercises. I've chosen the most suitable (imo) exercises to demonstrate the basic things about Func lang.

DOD

1. Every exercise has to correspond the guidelines, be executable and covered with tests.
2. When ready, exercise has to be Pull Requested to https://github.com/exercism/func/tree/main/exercises
3. When PR approved, exercise's author get their reward (see rewards in proposal)

Exercises proposal

#	Name	Reward	Comment
1	Hello world	-	Already done, need to merge to main track
2	Armstrong numbers	200$	Show basic arithmetic operations here
3	Flatten array	200$	Maybe we can work with the dict here
4	Difference of squares	200$	Count and compare
5	Error handling	200$	Show how we can handle errors in Func
6	Forth	300$	Your favourite stack based operations
7	Gigasecond	200$	Work with dates and 9 zeros
8	Change	200$	Swap coins evenly
9	Isogram	300$	Something very classic to demonstrate how to work with letters
10	Bank account	400$	Almost wallet contract
11	Largest series product	200$	One more thing to show how to work with arithmetics
12	Leap year	150$	Should be easy if with some count
13	List operations	300$	Would be nice to show how people can work with lists in Func
14	Perfect numbers	300$	-
15	REST API	300$	Might be good to show how get methods works with REST
16	Reverse string	150$	Func string magic under the hood
17	Tic-tac-toe	400$	Play some games
18	Variable length quantity	300$	-
19	Poker	400$	One more game
20	Binary search	300$	Some classic CS stuff

The full list of available exercises is here. You are able to propose something more suitable for Func.

[chakzefir]

@delovoyhomie for you to validate the upper comment with continuation of current footstep.

[chakzefir]

Wallet for reward: EQA-3pWU9ty6RAuip13-cMm9GujAsEa0HfVmDTA4gInCjUNr

@delovoyhomie