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+# Javascript Koans
+
+Koans to learn Javascript (forked from mrdavidlaing/javascript-koans)
+
+## Note for Hack Reactor Students
+
+__This is *not* the repo you are looking for__. Your repo will have the prefix YYYY-MM- where YYYY and MM are the year and month of your class start date.