Project structure for newcomers

[tejasbubane]

I am pretty new the clojure and just submitted the hello-world. The running the tests section on language page does not mention where to put my solution file, so initially I assumed it would be the problem directory itself. This gave me the error:

Could not locate hello_world__init.class or hello_world.clj on classpath

So I finally put it inside test/ assuming it is the tests that require the file and tests ran successfully. Later found out that exercism-clojure uses to the "real-world project structure" here #84.

I think the directory structure should be mentioned in running the tests section. Also if possible, creating an empty file inside src directory would help, so that people know the source code goes there.

[yurrriq]

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I can see how that could be confusing to newcomers.

Would you be willing to submit a PR with "stub" solution files? I think that's a great idea.

Update: WIP #122

[kevgathuku]

Hey @tejasbubane @yurrriq Thanks for your work on this.
Would it make sense to add the stub files for all exercises, or to make them a requirement when adding a new exercise?
It would make the whole thing more consistent, rather than some exercises having it and others not having it.
I could add them if needed.

[canweriotnow]

@kevgathuku @tejasbubane @yurrriq I think making stub solution files mandatory for all tracks - esp. using "real-world" leiningen projects - is a must-have. On the xscheme and xelisp tracks we always provide stub files to make sure the exercist has the proper requires/includes and file format (esp. for elisp so flycheck doesn't have a conniption)... having a stub file with the ns macro declaration and any necessary requires makes complete sense. I'd be happy to create and self-assign an issue to take this on if desired.

[yurrriq]

Sounds good to me then.