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The add and subtract methods in the [Clock test data](https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/main/exercises/clock/canonical-data.json) have expected results which are strings. In Python, this translates to allowing solutions to return a string and not a...
I recently mentored a student on `ReverseString` who had started off with a naive algorithm that had quadratic complexity. It was a bit disappointing to see that in the benchmarks,...
The example given in the word count description isn't actually included in the canonical data for it. This leads to issues like https://github.com/exercism/haskell/issues/1057 where the reference implementation doesn't solve the...
resolves #1651 - brought to y'all by the Julia Gang
For the tournament exercise, one of my students took the team names from the instructions and hard-coded them in the source code. Despite this, his solution passed all the tests....
Currently the tests for reverse string only contain strings with 7-bit ASCII. This is teaching people the wrong way to handle strings as you can just treat it as an...
The current test suite for the [word-count exercise](https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/tree/main/exercises/word-count) tests for words containing apostrophes, but the only examples used in the test cases themselves are words that only have one letter...
The darts problem description has a couple of problems: a) There's a link to a wolfram alpha page for "concentric circles" that is unlikely to make much sense to most...
The [description of the POV exercise](https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/37f7831be7b29edf05a5f9e56825c125c4eaf707/exercises/pov/description.md?plain=1#L10-L19) contains this part: > For example family trees are usually presented from the ancestor's perspective However, the exercise is about having a tree with...
