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 # ziglings
 
-Welcome to `ziglings`! This project contains a series of incomplete exercises.
-By completing the exercises, you learn how to read and write
+Welcome to `ziglings`! This project contains a series of tiny broken programs.
+By fixing them, you'll learn how to read and write
 [Zig](https://ziglang.org/)
-code.
+code!
 
 This project was directly inspired by the brilliant and fun
 [rustlings](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings)