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+# Resistor Color
+
+If you want to build something using a Raspberry Pi, you'll probably use _resistors_.
+For this exercise, you need to know two things about them:
+
+* Each resistor has a resistance value.
+* Resistors are small - so small in fact that if you printed the resistance value on them, it would be hard to read.
+
+To get around this problem, manufacturers print color-coded bands onto the resistors to denote their resistance values.
+Each band has a position and a numeric value.
+
+The first 2 bands of a resistor have a simple encoding scheme: each color maps to a single number.
+
+In this exercise you are going to create a helpful program so that you don't have to remember the values of the bands.
+
+These colors are encoded as follows:
+
+- Black: 0
+- Brown: 1
+- Red: 2
+- Orange: 3
+- Yellow: 4
+- Green: 5
+- Blue: 6
+- Violet: 7
+- Grey: 8
+- White: 9
+
+The goal of this exercise is to create a way:
+- to look up the numerical value associated with a particular color band
+- to list the different band colors
+
+Mnemonics map the colors to the numbers, that, when stored as an array, happen to map to their index in the array: Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Values Go Wrong.
+
+More information on the color encoding of resistors can be found in the [Electronic color code Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code)
+
+## Getting Started
+
+Make sure you have read the "Guides" section of the
+[C track][c-track] on the Exercism site. This covers
+the basic information on setting up the development environment expected
+by the exercises.
+
+## Passing the Tests
+
+Get the first test compiling, linking and passing by following the [three
+rules of test-driven development][3-tdd-rules].
+
+The included makefile can be used to create and run the tests using the `test`
+task.
+
+    make test
+
+Create just the functions you need to satisfy any compiler errors and get the
+test to fail. Then write just enough code to get the test to pass. Once you've
+done that, move onto the next test.
+
+As you progress through the tests, take the time to refactor your
+implementation for readability and expressiveness and then go on to the next
+test.
+
+Try to use standard C99 facilities in preference to writing your own
+low-level algorithms or facilities by hand.
+
+## Source
+
+Maud de Vries, Erik Schierboom [https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1458](https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1458)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.
+
+[c-track]: https://exercism.io/my/tracks/c
+[3-tdd-rules]: http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.TheThreeRulesOfTdd