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Clinton Medbery
1,559 PointsThe example video has the year being set as a NSNumber I believe while the exercise here requires a string.
Might want to fix that.
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Clinton Medbery
1,559 PointsStill, it is unnecessarily confusing. In fact, the message that comes back says that I had the wrong year, instead of a completely wrong type of data. It would probably be even more confusing to someone who had little programming experience.
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsthe challenges dont usually contain exactly whats in the video (though sometimes they do)
Stone Preston
42,016 PointsStone Preston
42,016 Pointsyeah sometimes the error messages dont exactly match the reason you arent passing. The challenge engine is not a perfect system and it doesnt catch every little thing (and it is usually quite picky.) The errors are usually more like hints (such as "be sure you are setting the year correctly") rather than "this is what is wrong." However I agree they should try and make the challenge engine more responsive to incorrect answers.