What’s new with coding exercises: October 2022 update

Bella
Bella Posts: 3,694 traveler rank
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Building on our update in August, check out the changes we’ve made to coding exercises in the past few months! We are continuing to improve this tool so that you can offer your learners authentic ways to practice and assess their comprehension.

  1. We released code snippets and auto-completion features to help learners practice similar to an integrated development environment (IDE). Code snippets are templates that make it easier to enter repeating code patterns.
  2. You can now create coding exercises in Java 17 with JUnit5. Java is one of our most popular programming languages, and these improvements could be helpful for the 600,000+ learners who are enrolled in a Java development course.
  3. When learners open coding exercises in a course, they’ll now see a fully-extended environment. It’s a smaller-scale design change, but we’re hoping it improves the user experience for you and your learners.

Beyond these improvements, we’re working on new designs for coding exercises that align with some of the top requests we’ve heard from you and learners. We’ll continue to update the community and this teaching center article as we make progress on the initiative!

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  • MichaelPog
    MichaelPog Posts: 1,004 rolemodel rank

    This is great. Thank you for the update @Bella
    .

  • jeanphi
    jeanphi Posts: 72 storyteller rank

    Awesome! I really thought the integrated IDE was becoming legacy code.
    My Java students will be very happy to read about that!

    JP

  • DiogoAlvesd487
    DiogoAlvesd487 Posts: 354 mentor rank

    Nice, well done!

  • ValentinDespa
    ValentinDespa Posts: 64 storyteller rank

    Thanks for the update, @Bella

    While I can see the improved IDE, I can't find the code snippets. Where is that functionality documented?

  • Bella
    Bella Posts: 3,694 traveler rank

    Hi @ValentinDespa
    , thanks for flagging that this isn't yet fully covered in the help articles. I'd love to offer some more info here:

    From now on; both instructors and learners will be able to use Code Snippets and Auto-Completion features in coding exercises.

    Code snippets are templates that make it easier to enter repeating code patterns. Check out the screenshot below for an idea of how it looks like in the product:

    Bella_1-1667251219665.png

    Basically, Autocomplete feature recommends code snippets and users don't need to remember programming syntax and the names.

    Bella_3-1667251480965.png

    New and improved documentation should be coming out over the next few months to help guide instructors through the new features and design!

    Bella Almeida

    Udemy Community

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