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Hambone F
3,581 PointsWhy don't exercises have links to the forum posts for the exercise?
Working through some of the ASP.NET Web API exercises, I've had a couple times now where the code provided to download and run locally was giving me a problem, really only due to packages being out of date - which makes sense, since the course seems to be from a few years ago.
After spending a bunch of time figuring out how to work around it, I went and searched in the forums and found somebody else had already run into and fixed the same issue.
Normally on a video this would have been immediately visible because relevant/recent forum posts would have been visible on the same page.
Just a suggestion - why not do the same for coding exercises? Is this an intentional design choice?
3 Answers
Rob Allessi
8,600 PointsGreetings hambonefakenamington
By exercises, do you mean the code challenges? If so, we do provide some suggestions if you use the Get Help button and type out a brief description, which will then try to match up with any pre-existing forum posts of similar nature.
Admittingly, the feature could probably use some tweaks, but it should still be of help!
Rob Allessi
8,600 PointsHey Ham,
We certainly try to keep all content relevant and up to date, but reshooting a course due to a version change may not always be viable. Usually, we'll try to provide updates on processes within the teachers notes found beneath most videos. If you come across something that's wrong or outdated, definitely send an email with a link to the course (or videos themselves) to help@teamtreehouse.com so we can get it on our radar.
Hambone F
3,581 PointsNoted - thanks!
I'd still recommend adding the forum posts widget to the local code challenges :)
Hambone F
3,581 PointsHambone F
3,581 PointsHi Rob,
That's exactly what I mean - I think it would be much more helpful if the top/relevant forum posts were listed at the bottom of the page, like with the challenges. The ones in this course in particular are "Local Code Challenges", if that makes any difference.
Also, up until that point I didn't realize challenges could even have corresponding forum posts, as I don't think I'd ever clicked that "get help" button before.
On another note - I imagine this problem is probably more specific to the local code challenges, but do you ever go back and update them as time marches on? The languages don't change that often in just a couple years, but the tooling and runtime versions certainly do. What's the best way to report these kinds of issues?
Thanks!