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Re:On the Usability of Codecademy by bpm140 on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:05PM (#3472199)
Talk about a quick opportunity for improvement! Instead of displaying:

"Oops, try again."

Code Academy could type your statement:

"A large part of learning to program is testing and debugging. Please see if you can figure out what went wrong and try again."

It's all about setting expectations.

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Re:On the Usability of Codecademy by r0dica on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:26PM (#3472271)
I very much agree with this. But I still think that if someone types in 2+3 at that second exercise, the program should compute it properly and not error out :)
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