Implement new learning exercise: `partition`

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
clojure
Domain
content

Research direction

Read the linked v3, rationale, and concept-exercise docs before starting, then inspect existing exercises under languages/clojure/exercises/concept for their structure. Create the listed .docs and .meta files plus the exercise and test files for partition; completion means the exercise teaches the stated concepts and its tests and documentation follow the track conventions.

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Description

This issue describes how to implement the partition learning exercise for the Clojure track.

Getting started

Please please please read the docs before starting. Posting PRs without reading these docs will be a lot more frustrating for you during the review cycle, and exhaust Exercism's maintainers' time. So, before diving into the implementation, please read up on the following documents:

Please also watch the following video:

Goal

The goal of this exercise is to teach the student how the partition function can be used in Clojure.

Learning objectives

The student will gain a general understanding of:

  • The power of Clojure's sequence functions to transform data in contrast to imperative loops and recursion.

For a perfect example, check out these Clojure solutions to a very simple Advent of Code problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0FWqGC0PM

These solutions have also been gathered into a gist

Out of scope

Concepts

  • higher-order-functions

Prerequisites

  • basics

Resources to refer to

Partition - ClojureDocs

Representer

The Clojure Representer is currently being implemented and contributions are welcome.

Analyzer

The Clojure Analyzer is currently being implemented and contributions are welcome.

Implementing

To implement a concept exercise, the following files must be created:

languages
└── clojure
    └── exercises
        └── concept
            └── <SLUG>
                ├── .docs
                |   ├── instructions.md
                |   ├── introduction.md
                |   ├── hints.md
                |   └── after.md (optional)
                ├── .meta
                |   |── design.md
                |   └── Example.clj
                ├── <NAME>.clj
                └── <NAME>_test.clj

Help

If you have any questions while implementing the exercise, please post the questions as comments in this issue.

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Clojure
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