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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors Additional Pseudo-Classes

Posted by Gustavo Jimenez
Gustavo Jimenez
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I am unsure how to answer this.

Why isn't there a way to get hints?

3 Answers

Gustavo Jimenez
Gustavo Jimenez
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No worries, I figured it out. Trick question, thanks.

I disagree about the hints - if a person is stuck, it helps to finish the problem without giving an answer. It's only not useful if it's not used.

James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Gustavo Jimenez -

> I disagree about the hints

Note that Roberto Alicata didn't say a hint is not always useful he said a fixed hint is not always useful.

As a hint is very context specific and there is often only a small number of right ways to write code that will pass an exercise, but rather large number of ways to write code that will not pass. So hints are often fixed, taking a "guess" at what might be the issue with your code.

Roberto Alicata
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Roberto Alicata
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Roberto Alicata
Roberto Alicata
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You can ask here in the forum. I think that a fixed hint is not always useful to understand an exercise. What is your problem with this challenge?

Gustavo Jimenez
Gustavo Jimenez
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Gustavo Jimenez
Gustavo Jimenez
7,750 Points

James Barnett: Thanks for your response. I understand what you mean. Perhaps a sort of box during the code challenges that provides an overview of the topics covered in the previous video. At the moment, I have to open a new window, search for the specific video that challenge refers to and scan it so that I can pick up on a topic I may have missed or forgotten about.

(Apologies if this post counts as an additional answer, I couldn't find an option to directly reply to your post.)

James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

> Apologies if this post counts as an additional answer, I couldn't find an option to directly reply to your post.

You only reply to a answer in other words threading only goes one level deep. Basically if you clicked the add comment button on your answer, it would be underneath my comment. That's how we usually do threading on this forum.