I am already stuck. They are explaining what a regex is but not how to write one. Therefore anything I type in the box doesn’t work because I don’t know how to actually write a regex.
I got a code “on” and was told to put it at the end of the URL.
I got a 404 error and it won’t continue.
Probably didn’t get the instructions.
Can somebody pls help me
There seems to be a little confusion about the instructions given for the checkpoint, especially the last portion:
When you’ve entered a regular expression that matches the appropriate strings, a key will appear in the browser. Each key is part of a URL that contains a surprise you can uncover when you complete the lesson! Add the key to the end of the URL in the code editor and run the code to unlock the next exercise. Move to the next exercise when you are ready!
Which when done correctly (Spoilers - correct answer ahead!), will give you:
That portion gets added to https://content.codecademy.com/courses/regex/ => https://content.codecademy.com/courses/regex/on. As you finish the exercises in the lesson, you’ll continue to build out this URL and get rewarded with a nice little GIF at the end that lives in the full URL.
So the next exercise, you’ll get another word (it might be… dinosaur for example). So https://content.codecademy.com/courses/regex/on => https://content.codecademy.com/courses/regex/ondinosaur.
I hope that this post helps and I can play around with the wording in the actual checkpoint. Thanks everyone!
Edit 2: I think I get it now… the url is ONLY added in the code editor (before Run is used) not the address bar. Apologies, I think I’m tripping over the older instructions where the partial URL was used; it’s clear to me now.
Original:
If the intention is ONLY to use that URL at the very end of the course then the instructions should be updated to match this, the very first lesson says this-
“Add the key to the end of the URL in the code editor and run the code to unlock the next exercise”
Edit 1: Misread this the first time. If by play around with wording you mean that introduction is liable to change then I think that’ll stop folks running into the 404 issues. I believe it used to be necessary to actually enter that URL and run the code to advance in a lesson; if that’s no longer the case then those instructions are just a little dated.
I have the same issue. Apparently the whole lesson is broken like this. And refreshing the page doesn’t help. I’ve submitted a bug on the lesson’s page. Hopefully they will fix this.
hey @juliesovaa@ionpara@dradasew, thanks for flagging this. I just raised this to our curriculum team, specifically @realkennylin. I’ll report back once they have looked at it.
I’m not sure how your mini-browsers ended up with that URL, maybe someone gimme more details to look into? I’d appreciate that
The quick fix is to change the mini-browser’s URL to https://content.codecademy.com/courses/regex/build/index_all.html?query=0 (for the 2nd exercise)
Then if this error persists, for the 3rd exercise change the mini-browser’s URL to: https://content.codecademy.com/courses/regex/build/index_all.html?query=1 ← notice that I increased the # at the end by 1 and do this for the remaining exercises. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but this would be the more immediate fix.
I’ve tried accessing this lesson on both Chrome and Firefox and haven’t been able to replicate the issue. However, the URLs I provided should work.
If you guys have more details, again, I’d appreciate it. Thank you!!
Thanks for looking into this. When I enter this page it still shows this URL in the mini browser (screenshot attached):
With the URL you provided I can now see what I should see, so it’s working for now. I’ll check later how the remainder of exercises in this lesson will work.
It remains the same with every other exercise in this - I have to manually paste in the URL you provided and increase the #. At least, I can continue with this lesson now.
This has been the same from the very beginning - also the first time I got to that point in the lesson. And it actually took me while to understand that what I saw was not what I should have been seeing Only after I had seen a screenshot in this forum somewhere I was aware that there is something wrong on the page.
Hi @realkennylin!
It’s exactly the same for me as dradasew said. The URL I originally had in the first exercise was https://content.codecademy.com/?query=0. I didn’t change anything, it was like this from the start. I used the URL from your reply, and the exercise loaded correctly. But the next one has the same problem, so I guess I’ll have to use your URL for the remaining exercises in this lesson. What details could be useful to you?
Thank you for your time
Maybe knowing what browser you used when accessing the lesson would be helpful.
Another thought that I have is that there might’ve been some engineering work done in that week that all three of you were accessing the lesson. But I’ll keep an eye out for bugs on this lesson