My solution is the same as the tutorial's solution

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Hey guys.

I just wondered if any of you thought this as well. Sometimes when i do a task, i get error message, saying something is wrong. I try a bit more, but find that i can’t solve it. When i click the solution option, it turns out that the code looks excatly the same as the code i wrote. And i fint it’s frustraiting.

Also one time i did

total += 1

and it threw and error message, but it makes really no sense to me. I had to type:
total = total + 1
to not get that error.

Thanx for the help

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If im not mistaken codecademy uses an algorithm to determine whether or not your answer is totally correct. Did the course teach you to do the += shortcut? if it didnt then it might not support that as an answer. If I am right about the algorithm it is searching for what the course has been teaching on the way so if that hasnt been taught then it is understandable.

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This helps alot! So even if i get an error, it doesn’t mean i can’t solve the problem with the way i write my code, it’s just their algorithm that throws an error?

Thank you very much for clarifying

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From my understanding this is correct. However I have only ever been thrown and error like this once and that was in the HTML course because I had the element like this

ewfwefwef

And it wanted it efwfefw. I think they have this to make sure you are using the correct formatting that most developer use, thats what I believe it was with the html course.