Strings Concept Exercise Re-Write

config.json

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   "exercises": {
     "concept": [
       {
-        "slug": "processing-logs",
-        "name": "Processing Logs",
+        "slug": "little-sisters-vocab",
+        "name": "Little Sisters Vocab",
         "uuid": "5a9b42fb-ddf4-424b-995d-f9952ea63c37",
         "concepts": ["strings"],
         "prerequisites": ["basics"],

exercises/concept/little-sisters-vocab/.docs/hints.md

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+# Hints
+
+## General
+
+- The [Python Docs Tutorial for strings][python-str-doc] has an overview of the Python `str` type.
+- String methods [<str>.join()][str-join] and [<str>.split()][str-split] ar very helpful when processing strings.
+- The [Python Docs on Sequence Types][common sequence operations] has a rundown of operations common to all sequences, including `strings`, `lists`, `tuples`, and `ranges`.
+
+You're helping your younger sister with her English vocabulary homework, which she's finding very tedious. Her class is learning to create new words by adding _prefixes_ and _suffixes_, and have been given different sets of words to modify. The teacher is looking for correctly transformed words and correct spelling, given the word beginning or ending.
+
+There's four activities in the assignment, each with a set of text or words to work with.
+
+## 1. Add a prefix to a word
+
+- Small strings can be concatenated with the `+` operator.
+
+## 2. Add prefixes to word groups
+
+- Believe it or not, <str>.join() is all you need.
+- Like `<str>.split()`, `<str>.join()` can take an arbitrary-length string, made up of any unicode code points.
+
+## 3. Remove a suffix from a word
+
+- Strings can be both indexed and sliced from either the left (starting at 0) or the right (starting at -1).
+- If you want the last code point of an arbitrary-length string, you can use [-1].
+- The last three letters in a string can be "sliced off" using a negative index. e.g. 'beautiful'[:-3] == 'beauti'
+
+## 4. Extract and transform a word
+
+- Using `<str>.split()` returns a list of strings broken on white space.
+- `lists` are sequences, and can be indexed.
+- `<str>.split()` can be direcly indexed. e.g. `'Exercism rocks!'.split()[0] == 'Exercism'`
+- Be careful of punctuation! Periods can be removed via slice: `'dark.'[:-1] == 'dark'`
+
+[python-str-doc]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html#strings
+
+[common sequence operations]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str
+[str-join]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.join
+[str-split]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.split

exercises/concept/little-sisters-vocab/.docs/instructions.md

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+# Instructions
+
+You're helping your younger sister with her English vocabulary homework, which she's finding very tedious. Her class is learning to create new words by adding _prefixes_ and _suffixes_, and have been given different sets of words to modify. The teacher is looking for correctly transformed words and correct spelling, given the word beginning or ending.
+
+There's four activities in the assignment, each with a set of text or words to work with.
+
+## 1. Add a prefix to a word
+
+One of the most common prefixes in English is `un`, meaning "not". In this activity, your sister needs to make negative, or "not" words by adding `un` to them.
+
+Implement the `add_prefix_un()` function that takes `word` as a parameter and returns a new `un` prefixed word:
+
+```python
+>>> add_prefix_un("happy")
+'unhappy'
+
+>>> add_prefix("manageable")
+'unmanagable'
+```
+
+## 2. Add prefixes to word groups
+
+There are four more common prefixes that your sister's class is studying: `en` (_meaning to 'put into' or 'cover with'_), `pre` (_meaning before or forward _), `auto` (_meaning self or same_), and `inter` (_meaning between or among_). In this exercise, the class is creating groups of vocabulary words using these prefixes, so they can be studied together. Each prefix comes in a list with common words it's used with. The students need to apply the prefix and produce a string that shows the prefix and the words with the prefix applied.
+
+Implement the `make_word_groups()` function that takes a `vocab_words` as a parameter in the following form: [`<prefix>`, `word_1`, `word_2` .... `word_n`], and returns a string with the prefix applied to each word that looks like `'<prefix> :: <prefix><word_1> :: <prefix><word_2> :: <prefix><word_n>'`.
+
+```python
+>>> make_word_groups(['en', close, joy, lighten])
+'en :: enclose :: enjoy :: enlighten'
+
+>>> make_word_groups(['pre',  serve, dispose, position])
+'pre :: preserve :: predispose :: preposition'
+
+>> make_word_groups(['auto', 'didactic', 'graph', 'mate'])
+'auto :: autodidactic :: autograph :: automate'
+
+>>> make_word_groups(['inter', 'twine', 'connected', 'dependant'])
+'inter :: intertwine :: interconnected :: interdependant'
+```
+
+## 3. Remove a suffix from a word
+
+`ness` is a common suffix that means "state of being". In this activity, your sister needs to "extract" the original root word by removing the `ness` suffix. But of course there are pesky spelling rules. If the root word originally ended in a consonant followed by a 'y', then the 'y' was changed to to 'i'. So removing the 'ness' needs to restore the 'y' in the original word. `happiness` --> `happi` --> `happy`.
+
+Implement the `remove_suffix_ness()` function that takes in a word and returns the base word with `ness` removed.
+
+```python
+>>> remove_suffix_ness("heaviness")
+'heavy'
+
+>>> remove_suffix_ness("sadness")
+'sad'
+```
+
+## 4. Extract and transform a word
+
+Suffixes are often used to change the part of speech a word has. A common practice in English is "verbing" or "verbifying" -- where a ajective _becomes_ a verb by adding an `en` suffix.
+
+In this task, your sister is going to practice "verbing" by extracting an ajective from a sentence and turning it into a verb. Fortunately, all the words that need to be transformed here are "regular" - they don't need spelling changes to add the suffix.
+
+Implement the `noun_to_verb()` function that takes two parameters. A `sentence` using the vocabulary word, and the `index` of the word, once that sentence is split apart. The function should return the extracted ajective as a verb.
+
+```python
+>>> noun_to_verb('I need to make that bright.', -1 )
+'brighten'
+
+>>> noun_to_verb('It got dark as the sun set.', 2)
+'darken'
+```

exercises/concept/little-sisters-vocab/.docs/introduction.md

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+# Introduction
+
+A `str` in Python is an [immutable sequence][text sequence] of [Unicode code points][unicode code points].
+These could include letters, diacritical marks, positioning characters, numbers, currecy symbols, emoji, punctuation, space and line break characters, and more.
+Being immutable, a `str` object's value in memory doesn't change; methods that appear to modify a string return a new copy or instance of `str`.
+
+A `str` literal can be declared via single `'` or double `"` quotes. The escape `\` character is available as needed.
+
+```python
+
+>>> single_quoted = 'These allow "double quoting" without "escape" characters.'
+
+>>> double_quoted = "These allow embedded 'single quoting', so you don't have to use an 'escape' character".
+```
+
+Muliti-line strings are declared with `'''` or `"""`.
+
+```python
+>>> triple_quoted =  '''Three single quotes or "double quotes" in a row allow for multi-line string literals.
+  Line break characters, tabs and other whitespace is fully supported.
+
+  You\'ll most often encounter these as "doc strings" or "doc tests" written just below the first line of a function or class definition.
+    They\'re often used with auto documentation ✍ tools.
+    '''
+```
+
+Strings can be concatenated using the `+` operator.
+This method should be used sparingly, as it is not very performant or easily maintained.
+
+```python
+language = "Ukrainian"
+number = "nine"
+word = "девять"
+
+sentence = word + " " + "means" + " " + number + " in " + language + "."
+
+>>> print(sentence)
+...
+"девять means nine in Ukrainian."
+```
+
+If a `list`, `tuple`, `set` or other collection of individual strings needs to be combined into a single `str`, [`<str>.join(<iterable>)`][str-join], is a better option:
+
+```python
+# str.join() makes a new string from the iterables elements.
+>>> chickens = ["hen", "egg", "rooster"]
+>>> ' '.join(chickens)
+'hen egg rooster'
+
+# Any string can be used as the joining element.
+>>> ' :: '.join(chickens)
+'hen :: egg :: rooster'
+
+>>> ' 🌿 '.join(chickens)
+'hen 🌿 egg 🌿 rooster'
+```
+
+Code points within a `str` can be referenced by 0-based index number from the left:
+
+```python
+creative = '창의적인'
+
+>>> creative[0]
+'창'
+
+>>> creative[2]
+'적'
+
+>>> creative[3]
+'인'
+```
+
+Indexing also works from the right, starting with `-1`:
+
+```python
+creative = '창의적인'
+
+>>> creative[-4]
+'창'
+
+>>> creative[-2]
+'적'
+
+>>> creative[-1]
+'인'
+
+```
+
+There is no separate “character” or "rune" type in Python, so indexing a string produces a new `str` of length 1:
+
+```python
+
+>>> website = "exercism"
+>>> type(website[0])
+<class 'str'>
+
+>>> len(website[0])
+1
+
+>>> website[0] == website[0:1] == 'e'
+True
+```
+
+Substrings can be selected via _slice notation_, using [`<str>[<start>:stop:<step>]`][common sequence operations] to produce a new string.
+Results exclude the `stop` index.
+If no `start` is given, the starting index will be 0.
+If no `stop` is given, the `stop` index will be the end of the string.
+
+```python
+moon_and_stars = '🌟🌟🌙🌟🌟⭐'
+
+>>> moon_and_stars[1:4]
+'🌟🌙🌟'
+
+>>> moon_and_stars[:3]
+'🌟🌟🌙'
+
+>>> moon_and_stars[3:]
+'🌟🌟⭐'
+
+>>> moon_and_stars[:-1]
+'🌟🌟🌙🌟🌟'
+
+>>> moon_and_stars[:-3]
+'🌟🌟🌙'
+```
+
+Strings can also be broken into smaller strings via [`<str>.split(<separator>)`][str-split], which will return a `list` of substrings.
+The list can then be further indexed or split, if needed.
+Using `<str>.split()` without any arguments will split the string on whitespace.
+
+```python
+>>> cat_ipsum = "Destroy house in 5 seconds mock the hooman."
+>>> cat_ipsum.split()
+...
+['Destroy', 'house', 'in', '5', 'seconds', 'mock', 'the', 'hooman.']
+
+
+>>> cat_ipsum.split()[-1]
+'hooman.'
+
+
+>>> cat_words = "feline, four-footed, ferocious, furry"
+>>> cat_words.split(',')
+...
+['feline, four-footed, ferocious, furry']
+```
+
+Seperators for `<str>.split()` can be more than one character. The whole string will be used for matching.
+
+```python
+
+>>> colors = """red,
+orange,
+green,
+purple,
+yellow"""
+
+>>> colors.split(',\n')
+['red', 'orange', 'green', 'purple', 'yellow']
+```
+
+Strings support all [common sequence operations][common sequence operations].
+Individual code points can be iterated through in a loop via `for item in <str>`.
+Indexes _with_ items can be iterated through in a loop via `for index, item in enumerate(<str>)`
+
+```python
+
+>>> exercise = 'လေ့ကျင့်'
+
+# Note that there are more code points than percieved glyphs or characters
+>>> for code_point in exercise:
+...    print(code_point)
+...
+လ
+ေ
+့
+က
+ျ
+င
+်
+့
+
+# Using enumerate will give both the value and index position of each element.
+>>> for index, code_point in enumerate(exercise):
+...    print(index, ": ", code_point)
+...
+0 :  လ
+1 :  ေ
+2 :  ့
+3 :  က
+4 :  ျ
+5 :  င
+6 :  ်
+7 :  ့
+```
+
+[text sequence]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str
+[unicode code points]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27331819/whats-the-difference-between-a-character-a-code-point-a-glyph-and-a-grapheme
+[common sequence operations]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#common-sequence-operations
+[str-split]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.split
+[str-join]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.join
+[str-constructor]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str

exercises/concept/little-sisters-vocab/.meta/config.json

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+{
+  "blurb": "Learn about strings by helping your little sister with her vocabulary homework.",
+  "icon": "two-fer",
+  "authors": ["aldraco", "bethanyg"],
+  "files": {
+    "solution": ["strings.py"],
+    "test": ["strings_test.py"],
+    "exemplar": [".meta/exemplar.py"]
+  }
+}

exercises/concept/processing-logs/.meta/design.md → exercises/concept/little-sisters-vocab/.meta/design.md

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 ## Things to teach
 
 - Know that Python has a `str` type.
-- Know how to find items in a string.
+- How to use `<str>.join()`
+- How to use `<str>.split()`
 - Know how to manipulate strings to create new strings.
-- Familiarize one's self with string instance methods in Python.
-- Learn about string formatting.
 
 ## Things not to teach
 
-- Regex: `regex` is a useful tool for a solution, but isn't required.
+- Regex: `regex`.  That is for a different exercise.
 - Iteration: Although strings are iterable, this is not the focus of this exercise.
 
-## Concepts
-
-The Concepts this exercise unlocks are:
-
-- `strings-basic`: know about `str` type in Python, know some basic methods, know about formatting.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- `functions`: The student should be familiar with creating functions.
+- `basics`: The student should be familiar with the basics exercise.
 
 ## Representer