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Hello World
Write a program that greets the user by name, or by saying "Hello, World!" if no name is given.
"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language.
Note: You can skip this exercise by running:
exercism skip $LANGUAGE hello-world
Specification
The Hello World!
program will greet me, the caller.
If I tell the program my name is Alice, it will greet me by saying "Hello, Alice!".
If I neglect to give it my name, it will greet me by saying "Hello, World!"
Test-Driven Development
As programmers mature, they eventually want to test their code.
Here at Exercism we simulate Test-Driven Development (TDD), where you write your tests before writing any functionality. The simulation comes in the form of a pre-written test suite, which will signal that you have solved the problem.
It will also provide you with a safety net to explore other solutions without breaking the functionality.
A typical TDD workflow on Exercism:
- Run the test file and pick one test that's failing.
- Write some code to fix the test you picked.
- Re-run the tests to confirm the test is now passing.
- Repeat from step 1.
- Submit your solution.
Instructions
Submissions are encouraged to be general, within reason. Having said that, it's also important not to over-engineer a solution.
It's important to remember that the goal is to make code as expressive and readable as we can. However, solutions to the hello-world exercise will be not be reviewed by a person, but by rikki- the robot, who will offer an encouraging word.
Setup
There are two different methods of getting set up to run the tests with Objective-C:
- Create an Xcode project with a test target which will run the tests.
- Use the ruby gem
objc
as a test runner utility.
Both are described in more detail here: http://help.exercism.io/getting-started-with-objective-c.html
Submitting Exercises
When submitting an exercise, make sure your solution file is in the same directory as the test code.
For example, if you're submitting Bob.m
for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/objective-c/bob/Bob.m
.
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