Workspace v.s. Code Challenge Page

Hi Garity,

The workspace is an optional thing, you can use it to follow along and build your own project similar to the tutor, or use it completely by its self to do your own project. It's a way for all students to follow along with the tutor only having to give one set of instructions on its use, much harder to do if students are using 10 different applications to write code when following the tutors examples.

The code you see on the challenge stage is purely to see if your have a grasp of what you have just watched, so it is part of the course and must be passed to move on, unlike workspace which you don't have to use at all if you decide not too.

code challenges are like quizzes for writing code. They test out what you have learned in the course so far. Generally I would say its not a good idea to copy and paste code from your workspace because you will learn more and faster by typing the code out yourself. Also the code challenges ask for different but similar code usually, its not always going to be the same code you wrote in your workspace (sometimes it is though)