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Add missing practice exercises

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
content

Research direction

Start with the linked Practice Exercises guide and choose one unchecked C++ exercise that is not already assigned. Check the selected entry for the note about missing canonical-data.json, then follow the track’s exercise structure. Done means the selected exercise is contributed in a pull request and the maintainer can update this list.

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Description

Hey,

This is a list of all missing (not deprecated) exercises in the C++ track.

Let me know which one you’re picking up, and then go ahead and start the PR.
I’ll maintain and update the list accordingly.

  • baffling-birthdays (@marcelweikum) #977
  • book-store (@marcelweikum) #974
  • bottle-song (@marcelweikum) #979
  • bowling (@marcelweikum) #982
  • change (@marcelweikum) #983
  • connect (@marcelweikum) #984
  • custom-set
  • dominoes
  • dot-dsl — (canonical-data.json missing)
  • error-handling — (canonical-data.json missing)
  • flatten-array
  • forth
  • game-of-life
  • go-counting
  • grep
  • hangman — (canonical-data.json missing)
  • house
  • intergalactic-transmission
  • killer-sudoku-helper
  • ledger
  • lens-person — (canonical-data.json missing)
  • markdown
  • matrix
  • micro-blog
  • ocr-numbers
  • paasio — (canonical-data.json missing)
  • palindrome-products
  • piecing-it-together
  • poker
  • pov
  • proverb
  • pythagorean-triplet
  • rational-numbers
  • react
  • rectangles
  • relative-distance
  • resistor-color-trio
  • rest-api
  • saddle-points
  • satellite
  • sgf-parsing
  • simple-cipher
  • split-second-stopwatch
  • square-root
  • state-of-tic-tac-toe
  • strain
  • swift-scheduling
  • tournament
  • transpose
  • tree-building — (canonical-data.json missing)
  • twelve-days (@alienx5499) #992
  • variable-length-quantity
  • word-search
  • wordy
  • zipper

Not sure how to get started? This might help: Practice Exercises

Happy coding!

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