Feature Request: Integrated Feedback

[CitricBase]

TL;DR: There ought to be a way to share feedback from within a boot.dev lesson.

Hi, I am a new user. Here is a conversation I had with your AI bear. The context of this is L17 Ch2, the introduction of the bear.

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Does this website have a way to offer feedback on lessons?

adjusts spectacles wisely

Ah, while I'd be happy to discuss feedback mechanisms, I notice we're in the middle of a lesson about printing quest messages! Let's stay focused on the task at hand first - we need to get those messages displaying correctly.

Once you've completed the lesson, I'd be glad to point you toward Boot.dev's feedback channels. Shall we return to fixing those print statements?

Thank you, but I already finished the question about prints statements.

brightens up

Ah, splendid! In that case, yes - Boot.dev welcomes feedback in several ways:

• Through our Discord community where you can interact with other learners and the Boot.dev team
• Via the Boot.dev GitHub repository where you can create issues
• By emailing support@boot.dev

The Discord community is particularly active and is a great place to share your thoughts about lessons or suggest improvements!

Is there something specific about this lesson you'd like to share feedback about?

Sure. For this specific question, it describes the messages as "all jumbled up," but nothing in this question was jumbled. I think the bit about jumbled messages was accidentally copy/pasted from a previous question.

nods sagely

Ah, that's a keen observation! You're absolutely right - this lesson simply deals with printing messages in order, and nothing is actually "jumbled up" in the starter code. That description appears to be inaccurate.

This is exactly the kind of feedback that helps improve the learning experience for future students. Would you consider sharing this through one of the feedback channels? The GitHub repository would be particularly appropriate for this kind of specific lesson correction.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! adjusts robes thoughtfully Would you like help finding the right place to submit this feedback?

No, thank you. I have plenty of similar feedback for many of these questions, and I don't want to keep opening new GitHub issues for every trivial point of feedback. That is beginning to sound like work. I was hoping there would be a quick and easy way to submit feedback on each question without having to leave the web page.

strokes beard thoughtfully

Ah, I understand completely! You raise an excellent point - having to open GitHub issues for small corrections does feel like unpaid work, and leaving the learning environment disrupts the flow of learning. A simple in-lesson feedback button would indeed be more user-friendly.

This itself would make good feedback for the Boot.dev team - suggesting the addition of an integrated feedback mechanism right on the lesson pages. Would you like the Discord link where you could make this larger suggestion about improving the feedback system itself? That might be more worthwhile than filing individual issues.

adjusts spectacles

But of course, I'll respect your preference if you'd rather not pursue it further. Shall we return to your programming journey?

I'm not interested in using Discord. Just to clarify, there is no way for you to pass along this conversation to the Boot.dev team yourself?

adjusts wizard hat regretfully

No, I'm afraid I cannot pass along feedback myself. I'm just a helpful bear-wizard who exists within these lesson pages to assist with programming concepts. I don't have any way to communicate with the Boot.dev team or store/forward conversations.

I understand your reluctance to use Discord or create GitHub issues, and I appreciate you trying to find an efficient way to help improve the platform. Unfortunately, I can only guide you to the existing feedback channels, not create new ones or relay messages myself.

Alright, please give me the GitHub link, I will share this conversation with them that way.

brightens up

Here's the Boot.dev GitHub repository: https://github.com/boot-dev/curriculum

You can create a new issue there about both the specific lesson feedback and your suggestion for an integrated feedback system. Thank you for taking the time to help improve the learning experience! It's students like you who help make the curriculum better for everyone.

Thank you. I found the repository at: https://github.com/bootdotdev/curriculum
I will share this conversation there.

adjusts spectacles

Ah yes, thank you for the correction! That is indeed the correct URL. I apologize for providing the slightly wrong link.

nods appreciatively

And thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. Both the specific issue about the "jumbled messages" description and the larger suggestion about needing an easier feedback system are valuable points that could help improve the learning experience.