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Hey, everyone, Alena here.

Practice is vital to becoming a proficient developer.

It solidifies what you've learned, causing it to stick in your memory.

With deliberate practice it becomes quicker and

easier to solve challenges you'll face everyday.

So, let's practice some PHP.

This practice session is intended to give you additional practice

with string manipulation, from the third stage of the PHP basics course.

If you haven't taken that course already, or find this practice session too

difficult, then review string manipulation from stage three of the PHP basics course.

Check the notes associated with this video for additional links and resources.

Let's review the challenge.

There are four steps to completing this challenge.

The index.php file includes a comment for each step.

Add your code below each comment.

Step one.

Create a variable named programmer and set its value equal to Ada Lovelace.

Step two.

Create another variable named year, and set its value equal to 1843.

Step three.

Replace programmer in the message string with the variable programmer.

And replace year in the message string with the variable year.

And finally, step four, display the message string to the screen.

At any point, to test out what you've done, go to View > Show Console.

And type php index.php.

There are no errors and nothing is displayed to the screen yet.

Remember, it's okay to make multiple attempts before coming to a solution.

That struggle to remember what you've learned, and

apply it to the situation is what causes the knowledge to take root.

If you do get stuck,

I've included additional resources in the notes associated with this video.

Go ahead, and give it a try, and I'll show you my solution in the next video.