programming-challenges/CONTRIBUTING.md

💡 Contributing

Thanks a lot for your interest in contributing to programming-challenges! 🎉

Types of contributions

• Submit a challenge
• Submit a solution
• Add support for a new language
• Correct spelling errors, improvements or additions to documentation files (README, CONTRIBUTING...).

Submit a challenge

You can submit a new challenge by running the command programming-challenges generate challenge --challenge="<your-challenge-name>" --github-user="<your-github-user>"

After running this command, a new folder will be created inside the challenges folder.

You can start editing the test folder of the challenge with corresponding input.txt and output.txt also don't forget to update README.md with appropriate exercise statement, to explain what is intended for this challenge.

Submit a solution

You can submit a new solution by running the command programming-challenges generate solution --challenge="<name>" --github-user="<your-github-user>" --language="<your-favorite-language>" --solution="<your-solution>".

After running this command, a new folder will be created inside the solutions folder of the challenge.

Start writing some code, inside the solution file with your favorite programming language, you will get the input thanks to STDIN, and you should output what is intended to STDOUT.

Before submitting the solution, make sure it passes all the tests by running programming-challenges run test --affected.

Add a language

You can add support for a new language, so you can solve the challenges with even more programming languages!

• First create a new folder inside templates/docker with the file extension of the new programming language (e.g: js, cpp, etc.)
• Inside this new folder create a Dockerfile, to compile and execute the solution
• Create a new template inside templates/solution folder with the file extension of the new programming language, with the basic boilerplate to read from stdin and print to stdout the result
• Run the command programming-challenges generate solution --challenge="<name>" --github-user="<your-github-user>" --language="<your-new-language>" --solution="<your-solution>

Before submitting the new programming language, make sure it passes all the tests by running programming-challenges run test --affected

Pull Requests

• Please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue before making a change. It might avoid a waste of your time.

• Make sure your code passes the tests.

If you're adding new features to programming-challenges, please include tests.

Commits

The commit message guidelines respect @commitlint/config-conventional and Semantic Versioning for releases.

Types

Types define which kind of changes you made to the project.

Types	Description
feat	A new feature.
fix	A bug fix.
docs	Documentation only changes.
style	Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc).
refactor	A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature.
perf	A code change that improves performance.
test	Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests.
build	Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm).
ci	Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Travis, Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs).
chore	Other changes that don't modify src or test files.
revert	Reverts a previous commit.

Scopes

Scopes define what part of the code changed.

• cli
• challenges
• solutions
• languages

Examples

git commit -m "feat(languages): add C# support"
git commit -m "fix(cli): improve --ci option to `run test` command"
git commit -m "feat(challenges): add `hello-world`"
git commit -m "feat(solutions): add `hello-world/javascript/function`"
git commit -m "docs: fix typo `at` should be `on`"