Merge pull request #528 from robkeim/write-a-program

Removes "write a program" from descriptions to address #321

exercises/all-your-base/metadata.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will convert a number, represented as a sequence of digits in one base, to any other base."
+blurb: "Convert a number, represented as a sequence of digits in one base, to any other base."

exercises/allergies/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a person's allergy score, can tell them whether or not they're allergic to a given item, and their full list of allergies."
+blurb: "Given a person's allergy score, determine whether or not they're allergic to a given item, and their full list of allergies."
 source: "Jumpstart Lab Warm-up"
 source_url: "http://jumpstartlab.com"

exercises/anagram/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a word and a list of possible anagrams, selects the correct sublist."
+blurb: "Given a word and a list of possible anagrams, select the correct sublist."
 source: "Inspired by the Extreme Startup game"
 source_url: "https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup"

exercises/beer-song/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program which produces the lyrics to that beloved classic, that field-trip favorite: 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall."
+blurb: "Produce the lyrics to that beloved classic, that field-trip favorite: 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall."
 source: "Learn to Program by Chris Pine"
 source_url: "http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06"

exercises/binary-search-tree/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that inserts numbers and searches in a binary tree."
+blurb: "Insert and search for numbers in a binary tree."
 source: "Josh Cheek"
 source_url: "https://twitter.com/josh_cheek"

exercises/binary-search/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that implements a binary search algorithm."
+blurb: "Implement a binary search algorithm."
 source: "Wikipedia"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm"

exercises/binary/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will convert a binary number, represented as a string (e.g. '101010'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles"
+blurb: "Convert a binary number, represented as a string (e.g. '101010'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles"
 source: "All of Computer Science"
 source_url: "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binary&a=*C.binary-_*MathWorld-"

exercises/change/description.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Write a program that will correctly determine the fewest number of coins
-to be given to the user such that the sum of the coins' value would
-equal the correct amount of change.
+Correctly determine the fewest number of coins to be given to the user
+such that the sum of the coins' value would equal the correct amount
+of change.
 
 ## For example
 

exercises/change/metadata.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will correctly determine change to be given using the least number of coins"
+blurb: "Correctly determine change to be given using the least number of coins"
 source: "Software Craftsmanship - Kata-logue"
 source_url: "http://craftsmanship.sv.cmu.edu/exercises/coin-change-kata"
 

exercises/crypto-square/description.md

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-Write a program that, given an English text, outputs the encoded version
-of that text.
+Given an English text, output the encoded version of that text.
 
 First, the input is normalized: the spaces and punctuation are removed
 from the English text and the message is downcased.

exercises/etl/description.md

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ input letters:
 - "d" is worth 2 points.
 - Etc.
 
-Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program that
-transforms the legacy data format to the shiny new format.
+Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to transform the legacy data
+format to the shiny new format.
 
 ### Notes
 

exercises/flatten-array/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will take a nested list and returns a single list with all values except nil/null"
+blurb: "Take a nested list and return a single list with all values except nil/null"
 source: "Interview Question"
 source_url: "https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Flatten.html"

exercises/food-chain/description.md

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-Write a program that generates the lyrics to the song
-"I know an old lady who swallowed a fly". While you could
-copy/paste the lyrics, or read them from a file, this
-problem is much more interesting if you approach it
-algorithmically.
+Generate the lyrics to the song "I know an old lady who
+swallowed a fly". While you could copy/paste the lyrics,
+or read them from a file, this problem is much more
+interesting if you approach it algorithmically.
 
 This is a [cumulative song](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_song) of unknown origin.
 

exercises/food-chain/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that generates the lyrics of the song 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'"
+blurb: "Generate the lyrics of the song 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'"
 source: "Wikipedia"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly"

exercises/gigasecond/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that calculates the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds."
+blurb: "Calculate the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds."
 source: "Chapter 9 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial."
 source_url: "http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09"

exercises/grade-school/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a small archiving program that stores students' names along with the grade that they are in."
+blurb: "Given students' names along with the grade that they are in, create a roster for the school"
 source: "A pairing session with Phil Battos at gSchool"
 source_url: "http://gschool.it"

exercises/grains/description.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ the next. Four on the third, and so on.
 
 There are 64 squares on a chessboard.
 
-Write a program that shows:
+Write code that shows:
 - how many grains were on each square, and
 - the total number of grains
 

exercises/grains/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that calculates the number of grains of wheat on a chessboard given that the number on each square doubles."
+blurb: "Calculate the number of grains of wheat on a chessboard given that the number on each square doubles."
 source: "JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 6"
 source_url: "http://www.javaranch.com/grains.jsp"

exercises/hamming/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can calculate the Hamming difference between two DNA strands."
+blurb: "Calculate the Hamming difference between two DNA strands."
 source: "The Calculating Point Mutations problem at Rosalind"
 source_url: "http://rosalind.info/problems/hamm/"

exercises/hello-world/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: 'Write a function that greets the user by name, or by saying "Hello, World!" if no name is given.'
+blurb: 'Greet the user by name, or by saying "Hello, World!" if no name is given.'
 source: "This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program"

exercises/hexadecimal/metadata.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will convert a hexadecimal number, represented as a string (e.g. \"10af8c\"), to its decimal equivalent using first principles (i.e. no, you may not use built-in or external libraries to accomplish the conversion)."
+blurb: "Convert a hexadecimal number, represented as a string (e.g. \"10af8c\"), to its decimal equivalent using first principles (i.e. no, you may not use built-in or external libraries to accomplish the conversion)."
 source: "All of Computer Science"
 source_url: "http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/NumberBases.html"
 

exercises/house/metadata.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that outputs the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'."
+blurb: "Output the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'."
 source: "British nursery rhyme"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_The_House_That_Jack_Built"
 

exercises/kindergarten-garden/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a diagram, can tell you which plants each child in the kindergarten class is responsible for."
+blurb: "Given a diagram, determine which plants each child in the kindergarten class is responsible for."
 source: "Random musings during airplane trip."
 source_url: "http://jumpstartlab.com"

exercises/largest-series-product/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, when given a string of digits, can calculate the largest product for a contiguous substring of digits of length n."
+blurb: "Given a string of digits, calculate the largest product for a contiguous substring of digits of length n."
 source: "A variation on Problem 8 at Project Euler"
 source_url: "http://projecteuler.net/problem=8"

exercises/leap/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will take a year and report if it is a leap year."
+blurb: "Given a year, report if it is a leap year."
 source: "JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3"
 source_url: "http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp"

exercises/luhn/description.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ a simple checksum formula used to validate a variety of identification
 numbers, such as credit card numbers and Canadian Social Insurance
 Numbers.
 
-The task is to write a function that checks if a given string is valid.
+The task is to check if a given string is valid.
 
 Validating a Number
 ------

exercises/luhn/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can take a number and determine whether or not it is valid per the Luhn formula."
+blurb: "Given a number determine whether or not it is valid per the Luhn formula."
 source: "The Luhn Algorithm on Wikipedia"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm"

exercises/matrix/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a string representing a matrix of numbers, can return the rows and columns of that matrix."
+blurb: "Given a string representing a matrix of numbers, return the rows and columns of that matrix."
 source: "Warmup to the `saddle-points` warmup."
 source_url: "http://jumpstartlab.com"

exercises/minesweeper/metadata.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that adds the numbers to a minesweeper board" 
+blurb: "Add the numbers to a minesweeper board" 

exercises/nth-prime/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can tell you what the nth prime is."
+blurb: "Given a number n, determine what the nth prime is."
 source: "A variation on Problem 7 at Project Euler"
 source_url: "http://projecteuler.net/problem=7"

exercises/ocr-numbers/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a 3 x 4 grid of pipes, underscores, and spaces, can determine which number is represented, or whether it is garbled."
+blurb: "Given a 3 x 4 grid of pipes, underscores, and spaces, determine which number is represented, or whether it is garbled."
 source: "Inspired by the Bank OCR kata"
 source_url: "http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataBankOCR"

exercises/octal/metadata.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will convert a octal number, represented as a string (e.g. '1735263'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles (i.e. no, you may not use built-in or external libraries to accomplish the conversion)."
+blurb: "Convert a octal number, represented as a string (e.g. '1735263'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles (i.e. no, you may not use built-in or external libraries to accomplish the conversion)."
 source: "All of Computer Science"
 source_url: "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=base+8"
 

exercises/paasio/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that reports network IO statistics"
+blurb: "Report network IO statistics"
 source: "Brian Matsuo"
 source_url: "https://github.com/bmatsuo"

exercises/palindrome-products/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can detect palindrome products in a given range."
+blurb: "Detect palindrome products in a given range."
 source: "Problem 4 at Project Euler"
 source_url: "http://projecteuler.net/problem=4"

exercises/parallel-letter-frequency/metadata.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that counts the frequency of letters in texts using parallel computation."
+blurb: "Count the frequency of letters in texts using parallel computation."

exercises/pascals-triangle/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that computes Pascal's triangle up to a given number of rows."
+blurb: "Compute Pascal's triangle up to a given number of rows."
 source: "Pascal's Triangle at Wolfram Math World"
 source_url: "http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PascalsTriangle.html"

exercises/phone-number/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that cleans up user-entered phone numbers so that they can be sent SMS messages."
+blurb: "Clean up user-entered phone numbers so that they can be sent SMS messages."
 source: "Event Manager by JumpstartLab"
 source_url: "http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/projects/eventmanager.html"

exercises/point-mutations/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can calculate the Hamming difference between two DNA strands."
+blurb: "Calculate the Hamming difference between two DNA strands."
 source: "The Calculating Point Mutations problem at Rosalind"
 source_url: "http://rosalind.info/problems/hamm/"

exercises/protein-translation/description.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Lets write a program that will translate RNA sequences into proteins. [general ref](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(biology)
+Let's translate RNA sequences into proteins. [general ref](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(biology)
 
 RNA can be broken into three nucleotide sequences called codons, and then translated to a polypeptide like so:
 

exercises/protein-translation/metadata.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will translate RNA sequences into proteins."
+blurb: "Translate RNA sequences into proteins."
 source: "Tyler Long"

exercises/proverb/metadata.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-blurb: "For want of a horseshoe nail, a kingdom was lost, or so the saying goes. Write a program that outputs the full text of this proverbial rhyme."
+blurb: "For want of a horseshoe nail, a kingdom was lost, or so the saying goes. Output the full text of this proverbial rhyme."
 source: "Wikipedia"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail"
 

exercises/queen-attack/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that positions two queens on a chess board and indicates whether or not they are positioned so that they can attack each other."
+blurb: "Given the position of two queens on a chess board, indicate whether or not they are positioned so that they can attack each other."
 source: "J Dalbey's Programming Practice problems"
 source_url: "http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html"

exercises/raindrops/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that converts a number to a string, the contents of which depend on the number's factors."
+blurb: "Convert a number to a string, the contents of which depend on the number's factors."
 source: "A variation on a famous interview question intended to weed out potential candidates."
 source_url: "http://jumpstartlab.com"

exercises/rna-transcription/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a DNA strand, returns its RNA complement (per RNA transcription)."
+blurb: "Given a DNA strand, return its RNA complement (per RNA transcription)."
 source: "Rosalind"
 source_url: "http://rosalind.info/problems/rna"

exercises/robot-name/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that manages robot factory settings."
+blurb: "Manage robot factory settings."
 source: "A debugging session with Paul Blackwell at gSchool."
 source_url: "http://gschool.it"

exercises/saddle-points/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that detects saddle points in a matrix."
+blurb: "Detect saddle points in a matrix."
 source: "J Dalbey's Programming Practice problems"
 source_url: "http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html"

exercises/say/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will take a number from 0 to 999,999,999,999 and spell out that number in English."
+blurb: "Given a number from 0 to 999,999,999,999, spell out that number in English."
 source: "A variation on JavaRanch CattleDrive, exercise 4a"
 source_url: "http://www.javaranch.com/say.jsp"

exercises/scale-generator/description.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-Write a program that can generate musical scales. It should accept
-a tonic, or starting note, and a set of intervals. It should be able to
-output the notes in the given scale, starting with the tonic and
-following the specified interval pattern.
+Given a tonic, or starting note, and a set of intervals, generate
+the musical scale starting with the tonic and following the
+specified interval pattern.
 
 Scales in Western music are based on the chromatic (12-note) scale.This
 scale can be expressed as the following group of pitches:

exercises/scale-generator/metadata.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can generate musical scales, given a starting note and a set of intervals. "
+blurb: "Generate musical scales, given a starting note and a set of intervals. "

exercises/scrabble-score/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a word, computes the scrabble score for that word."
+blurb: "Given a word, compute the scrabble score for that word."
 source: "Inspired by the Extreme Startup game"
 source_url: "https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup"

exercises/secret-handshake/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will take a decimal number, and convert it to the appropriate sequence of events for a secret handshake."
+blurb: "Given a decimal number, convert it to the appropriate sequence of events for a secret handshake."
 source: "Bert, in Mary Poppins"
 source_url: "http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0011238/quotes"

exercises/series/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will take a string of digits and give you all the contiguous substrings of length `n` in that string."
+blurb: "Given a string of digits, output all the contiguous substrings of length `n` in that string."
 source: "A subset of the Problem 8 at Project Euler"
 source_url: "http://projecteuler.net/problem=8"

exercises/sieve/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that uses the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find all the primes from 2 up to a given number."
+blurb: "Use the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find all the primes from 2 up to a given number."
 source: "Sieve of Eratosthenes at Wikipedia"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes"

exercises/space-age/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given an age in seconds, calculates how old someone is in terms of a given planet's solar years."
+blurb: "Given an age in seconds, calculate how old someone is in terms of a given planet's solar years."
 source: "Partially inspired by Chapter 1 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial."
 source_url: "http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=01"

exercises/sum-of-multiples/description.md

@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ multiples of either 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9, 10, 12, 15, and 18.
 
 The sum of these multiples is 78.
 
-Write a program that, given a number, can find the sum of the multiples
-of a given set of numbers, up to but not including that number.
+Given a number, find the sum of the multiples of a given set of numbers,
+up to but not including that number.

exercises/sum-of-multiples/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that, given a number, can find the sum of all the multiples of particular numbers up to but not including that number."
+blurb: "Given a number, find the sum of all the multiples of particular numbers up to but not including that number."
 source: "A variation on Problem 1 at Project Euler"
 source_url: "http://projecteuler.net/problem=1"

exercises/transpose/description.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Write a program that takes input text and outputs it -- transposed.
+Given an input text output it transposed.
 
 Roughly explained, the transpose of a matrix:
 

exercises/transpose/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that takes input text and outputs it transposed."
+blurb: "Take input text and output it transposed."
 source: "Reddit r/dailyprogrammer challenge #270 [Easy]."
 source_url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/4msu2x/challenge_270_easy_transpose_the_input_text"

exercises/triangle/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that can tell you if a triangle is equilateral, isosceles, or scalene."
+blurb: "Determine if a triangle is equilateral, isosceles, or scalene."
 source: "The Ruby Koans triangle project, parts 1 & 2"
 source_url: "http://rubykoans.com"

exercises/trinary/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that will convert a trinary number, represented as a string (e.g. '102012'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles."
+blurb: "Convert a trinary number, represented as a string (e.g. '102012'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles."
 source: "All of Computer Science"
 source_url: "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binary&a=*C.binary-_*MathWorld-"

exercises/twelve-days/metadata.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-blurb: "Write a program that outputs the lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'"
+blurb: "Output the lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'"
 source: "Wikipedia"
 source_url: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song)"