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Students confused by "type of String" in if-statement problem
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First of all, thanks for making this workshopper!
We facilitated a NodeSchool event in Sydney last weekend, and I saw several students confused by the wording of the following sentence:
Make the
fruitvariable reference the value orange with the type of String.
It looked like they weren't sure whether they needed to type "String" somewhere.
I'd like to suggest some alternative wordings:
Make the
fruitvariable reference the string value orange.
Make thefruitvariable reference the string value "orange".
Would this help? What do others think?
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Research direction
Start with problems/if-statement/problem.md and review the sentence about assigning orange to the fruit variable. Read the issue discussion and compare the proposed alternatives for clarity. Done means the exercise wording clearly describes a string value without suggesting that students type String.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
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- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
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- 1/5
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- 85/100