Intern challenge for White Whale

Code Challenge: Gibberish Algorithm

Challenge Overview

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The Basics:

You may use almost any programming language... it's your choice. See the supported options here.
Your program should leave the first and last letter of each word in place and scramble the rest.
Your program should not scamble punctuation (.,-'...etc.), numbers, or upper-case abbreviations.
See the [/text_files] folder for sample text files.

Input/Output:

Name your program as follows: gibgen.xx (where xx is variable based on the language you choose)
Your program should be able to read text input from a string passed into STDIN
- gibgen.xx "This is a String"
- cat mystringfile.txt | gibgen.xx
Your program should output to the console.

Note: This challenge is based on a popular word gibberish meme. You can improve the readability by looking at a researcher's take on the truths/myths of this meme, but this is not required.

What to do

Download & install Git on your machine
Fork this project - Go here and click the "Fork" button (located on the upper-right side of the screen)
Clone your new fork'd repository to your local machine - git clone https://github.com/trentgillham/whitewhaleintern.git
Complete the code challenge and fill out the Quick Start & Questions in the the README (see below)
git add and git commit your local repository as you go
Push your code and README back to Github occasionally - git push origin master
Email gillham@whitewhaleanalytics.com with the Commit URL to your fork'd repository that you want reviewed. It should include at least 2 files: (1) your updated README with Coding Questions answered, and (2) your program (gibgen.xx)
- Copy and paste the URL into the email along with your name... it should look something like this:
  - https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/whitewhaleintern.git

Note: If you have any questions, email gillham@whitewhaleanalytics.com.

Judging Criteria

Your responses to the Coding Questions at the bottom of this README are the Most Important part of this challenge. A working, fully fault-tolerant program that we just can't break, albeit awesome, is the least important. Why is that? Remember, we don't expect you to be expert programmers (just yet)... We want to see how you think through a problem.

For completion by applicant

Quick Start

Replace this text with instructions on how to execute your program
What programming language did you use? See here for the supported ones.
Also tell us anything else the reviewer should know about your code

Coding Questions

Question 1: "How did you approach the problem?" (500 words or less)

Question 2: "What was the most difficult aspect of the solution?" (500 words or less)

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