This Clojure Kata comes from Alice in Wonderland's author, Lewis Carroll. He came up with this word puzzle that he named Doublets.
The puzzle is to take two words of the same length and find a way of linking the first word to the second word by only changing one letter at a time. At the end of the transformation, there will be a collections of words that show the beginning word being changed into the ending word, one letter at a time. All the word links must be in Lewis Carroll's own words:
... it is de rigueur that the links should be English words, such as might be used in good society.
Also the word links should be words that are found in the dictionary. No proper nouns.
Here are some examples.
The Doublet of DOOR to LOCK is:
door
boor
book
look
lock
The Doublet of BANK to LOAN is:
bank
bonk
book
look
loon
loan
The Doublet of WHEAT into BREAD is:
wheat
cheat
cheap
cheep
creep
creed
breed
bread
- Clone or fork this repo
cd doublets- Run the tests with
lein test - Make the tests pass!
A sample dictionary has been included with a few words to get things going. After you solve the kata, you might want to try a bigger dictionary to discover more exciting doublets.
This kata is a bit tricky. You might want to start off with a really small dictionary, (like just the word link solutions) and make it pass from there.
Also don't be shy looking for other libraries or tools to help you.
Once you have your kata solution, you are welcome to submit a link to your repo to share here in this section with others.
- https://github.com/gensym/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/doublets-solution/doublets
- https://github.com/mwfogleman/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/doublets/doublets
- https://github.com/aaronj1335/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
- https://github.com/paulhenrich/wonderland-clojure-katas/blob/solving/doublets/src/doublets/solver.clj
- https://github.com/vincentjames501/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
- https://github.com/werand/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
- https://github.com/julianjelfs/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
- https://github.com/yzernik/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
- https://github.com/priort/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
- https://github.com/bradlucas/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/doublets/doublets
- https://github.com/dryewo/wonderland-clojure-katas/blob/doublets-solution/doublets/src/doublets/solver.clj
- https://github.com/davidpham87/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/my-training/doublets
- https://github.com/ultrakapy/wonderland-clojure-katas/tree/master/doublets
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