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		bpm140 on Jan 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the Usability of Codecademy 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.

r0dica on Jan 16, 2012 [–]

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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