adding practice exercise connect

config.json

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         "practices": [],
         "prerequisites": [],
         "difficulty": 1
-      }
+      },
+      {
+        "slug": "connect",
+        "name": "Connect",
+        "uuid": "6cd9edb0-35ba-4f32-b51b-a734d98e3a88",
+        "practices": [],
+        "prerequisites": [],
+        "difficulty": 5
+      }      
     ]
   },
   "concepts": [

exercises/practice/connect/.docs/instructions.md

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+# Instructions
+
+Compute the result for a game of Hex / Polygon.
+
+The abstract boardgame known as [Hex][hex] / Polygon / CON-TAC-TIX is quite simple in rules, though complex in practice.
+Two players place stones on a parallelogram with hexagonal fields.
+The player to connect his/her stones to the opposite side first wins.
+The four sides of the parallelogram are divided between the two players (i.e. one player gets assigned a side and the side directly opposite it and the other player gets assigned the two other sides).
+
+Your goal is to build a program that given a simple representation of a board computes the winner (or lack thereof).
+Note that all games need not be "fair".
+(For example, players may have mismatched piece counts or the game's board might have a different width and height.)
+
+The boards look like this:
+
+```text
+. O . X .
+ . X X O .
+  O O O X .
+   . X O X O
+    X O O O X
+```
+
+"Player `O`" plays from top to bottom, "Player `X`" plays from left to right.
+In the above example `O` has made a connection from left to right but nobody has won since `O` didn't connect top and bottom.
+
+[hex]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_%28board_game%29

exercises/practice/connect/.meta/config.json

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+{
+  "authors": [],
+  "files": {
+    "solution": [
+      "connect.jl"
+    ],
+    "test": [
+      "runtests.jl"
+    ],
+    "example": [
+      ".meta/example.jl"
+    ]
+  },
+  "blurb": "Compute the result for a game of Hex / Polygon."
+}

exercises/practice/connect/.meta/example.jl

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+#=
+The approach below is essentially an implementation of bfs/floodfill.
+ - connector does the bfs, using the six possible steps and tracking which have been seen, returns true/false
+   depending on if there is a path is found connecting two edges of the board.
+ - wins finds starting points for connector, and returns true if the provided points results in a win.
+ - connect processes the board to separate points into coordinates for wins to filter through and then returns the winner,
+   if there is one. The coordinates have been transposed for O, so that wins and connector can work with X or O equally.
+=#
+function connector(unseen, points, dim, nextpoints=Set())
+    for point in points, step in ((1,0),(-1,0),(0,1),(0,-1),(1,-1),(-1,1))
+        nextpoint = point .+ step
+        if nextpoint ∈ unseen
+            first(nextpoint) == dim && return true
+            push!(nextpoints, nextpoint)
+            delete!(unseen, nextpoint)
+        end
+    end
+    !isempty(nextpoints) && connector(unseen, nextpoints, dim)
+end
+
+function wins(points, dim)
+    for point in filter(isone ∘ first, points)
+        (isone(dim) || connector(setdiff(points, Set([point])), Set([point]), dim)) && return true
+    end
+    false
+end
+
+function connect(board)
+    newboard, Xs, Os = hcat(split.(strip.(board), " ")...), Set(), Set()
+    for i in axes(newboard,1), j in axes(newboard,2)
+        newboard[i,j] == "X" && push!(Xs, (i,j))
+        newboard[i,j] == "O" && push!(Os, (j,i))
+    end
+    wins(Xs, first(size(newboard))) ? "X" : wins(Os, last(size(newboard))) ? "O" : ""
+end

exercises/practice/connect/.meta/tests.toml

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+# This is an auto-generated file.
+#
+# Regenerating this file via `configlet sync` will:
+# - Recreate every `description` key/value pair
+# - Recreate every `reimplements` key/value pair, where they exist in problem-specifications
+# - Remove any `include = true` key/value pair (an omitted `include` key implies inclusion)
+# - Preserve any other key/value pair
+#
+# As user-added comments (using the # character) will be removed when this file
+# is regenerated, comments can be added via a `comment` key.
+
+[6eff0df4-3e92-478d-9b54-d3e8b354db56]
+description = "an empty board has no winner"
+
+[298b94c0-b46d-45d8-b34b-0fa2ea71f0a4]
+description = "X can win on a 1x1 board"
+
+[763bbae0-cb8f-4f28-bc21-5be16a5722dc]
+description = "O can win on a 1x1 board"
+
+[819fde60-9ae2-485e-a024-cbb8ea68751b]
+description = "only edges does not make a winner"
+
+[2c56a0d5-9528-41e5-b92b-499dfe08506c]
+description = "illegal diagonal does not make a winner"
+
+[41cce3ef-43ca-4963-970a-c05d39aa1cc1]
+description = "nobody wins crossing adjacent angles"
+
+[cd61c143-92f6-4a8d-84d9-cb2b359e226b]
+description = "X wins crossing from left to right"
+
+[73d1eda6-16ab-4460-9904-b5f5dd401d0b]
+description = "O wins crossing from top to bottom"
+
+[c3a2a550-944a-4637-8b3f-1e1bf1340a3d]
+description = "X wins using a convoluted path"
+
+[17e76fa8-f731-4db7-92ad-ed2a285d31f3]
+description = "X wins using a spiral path"

exercises/practice/connect/connect.jl

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+function connect(board)
+    # Your code here
+end

exercises/practice/connect/runtests.jl

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+using Test
+
+include("connect.jl")
+
+@testset "an empty board has no winner" begin
+    board = [
+        ". . . . .",
+        " . . . . .",
+        "  . . . . .",
+        "   . . . . .",
+        "    . . . . ."
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == ""
+end
+
+@testset "an empty 1x1 board has no winner" begin
+    board = [
+        "."
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == ""
+end
+
+@testset "X can win on a 1x1 board" begin
+    board = [
+        "X"
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == "X"
+end
+
+@testset "O can win on a 1x1 board" begin
+    board = [
+        "O"
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == "O"
+end
+
+@testset "only edges does not make a winner" begin
+    board = [
+        "O O O X",
+        " X . . X",
+        "  X . . X",
+        "   X O O O"
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == ""
+end
+
+@testset "illegal diagonal does not make a winner" begin
+    board = [
+        "X O . .",
+        " O X X X",
+        "  O X O .",
+        "   . O X .",
+        "    X X O O"
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == ""
+end
+
+@testset "nobody wins crossing adjacent angles" begin
+    board = [
+        "X . . .",
+        " . X O .",
+        "  O . X O",
+        "   . O . X",
+        "    . . O ."
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == ""
+end
+
+@testset "X wins crossing from left to right" begin
+    board = [
+        ". O . .",
+        " O X X X",
+        "  O X O .",
+        "   X X O X",
+        "    . O X ."
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == "X"
+end
+
+@testset "O wins crossing from top to bottom" begin
+    board = [
+        ". O . .",
+        " O X X X",
+        "  O O O .",
+        "   X X O X",
+        "    . O X ."
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == "O"
+end
+
+@testset "X wins using a convoluted path" begin
+    board = [
+        ". X X . .",
+        " X . X . X",
+        "  . X . X .",
+        "   . X X . .",
+        "    O O O O O"
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == "X"
+end
+
+@testset "X wins using a spiral path" begin
+    board = [
+        "O X X X X X X X X",
+        " O X O O O O O O O",
+        "  O X O X X X X X O",
+        "   O X O X O O O X O",
+        "    O X O X X X O X O",
+        "     O X O O O X O X O",
+        "      O X X X X X O X O",
+        "       O O O O O O O X O",
+        "        X X X X X X X X O"
+    ]
+    @test connect(board) == "X"
+end