PHP - Control Flow: Switch - Glance at the Past -- reviews elseif, but it hasn't been introduced yet

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This Glance at the past is asking to refresh what we have done in the previous course and “Write an if/elseif/else statement inside the editor and make it output anything you wish.”, however, the if/elseif/else statement was not covered in the previous course. The said course ended with an if/else statement.

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Technically, there is only if and else so not much new when introducing them in combination. It permits a multiway conditional branch permitting more than one condition to be tested in the same statement.

if ($a) {

} elseif ($b) {

} else {

}
3

I know JavaScript so I knew what it was asking for but when learning a new language this should not be assumed. For this reason alone I would expect Codecademy would want to correct the course.

4

Makes sense, yes. Can you please post a link to the lesson so I can give it a further read and examination. If I end up agreeing with you (I don’t actually disagree) then we can reassign this thread. Thank you.

Or not. Guess the interest is now lost?

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-jZv2E/0/1

5

I Reset this lesson, https://www.codecademy.com/en/courses/web-beginner-en-QF3Wb/0/4
and got this, as a starting point…

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      <?php
        // Write your if/elseif/else statement here!
        
      ?>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
<html>

Looking over the instructions, there is no call for elseif yet above it clearly asks for it. The passing code only needs to follow the instructions, explicitly…

<p>
      <?php
        // Write your if/elseif/else statement here!
        if ('gray' == 'white'){
            echo "The condition is true";
        } else {
            echo "The condition is false";
        }
      ?>
      
    </p>

So despite the instruction in the comment, the lesson does not give us practice with elseif so the point made by the OP is valid. Reassigning this topic.

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Confused. Why ask me for a link and then provide it yourself? Regardless, I believe it is shown at the top of this thread?

No, the interest is not lost. I submitted this issue because the course should be corrected if not for myself for someone new to programming. It is misleading.

7

I got impatient with the delay, and took it to mean you had moved on. Pardon me.

8

I was not monitoring the Q/A Forum as I am still completing the course.

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It is May 31, 2016 & the ELSEIF issue has not been addressed in this course.

10

“And the times, they are a changing” (Bob Dylan)

But not this course.