LaTeX Exercism Demos (proof of concept)

Note

Is not impossible to solve Exercism exercises using *LaTeX* and applying TDD metodology but it’s a bit hacky…

Repository dependencies

• pdflatex: https://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
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• pdftotext: http://poppler.freedesktop.org
  version details

  pdftotext version 24.03.0
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• bats: https://bats-core.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
  version details

  Bats 1.11.0
      

Running the examples

Enter in a subdirectory and runs:

bats *.bats

For instance, the step by step for the reverse-string exercise can be:

cd reverse-string/
bats *.bats

outputs:

1..6
ok 1 an empty string
ok 2 a word
ok 3 a capitalised word
ok 4 a sentence with punctuation
ok 5 a palindrome
ok 6 an even-sized word

Unit Test Framework

Try to port code to use qtest package.