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Why does each lesson in a course ask us to make a separate workspace?

Why does each lesson in a course ask us to make a separate workspace? I'm going to run out of workspaces soon. I've noticed this happening in the beginning Ruby courses and Javascript courses. Anyone else noticing this?

3 Answers

On the backend, they're creating a workspace with the files up to date for the current lesson. Also, you don't have to open a workspace on each lesson, so if the student didn't, and then decided 4 lessons in that they wanted to use the workspace for that lesson, they would have to recreate the files from the beginning, which isn't ideal.

Yeah, I agree, for some of the courses it does seem odd. I think one reason may be because they have added so much in the previous lesson, and they want students to start with something that is guaranteed to work. I don't mind creating so many workspaces, but having a way to delete them more than one at a time would be nice.

That sounds like a great idea! They should add that as a feature.