Hey all,
I have a student who is trying to put in a watcher with a to watch his array. The problem is that the entire page refreshes when he types a [ in the watcher box.
Any thoughts on a workaround?
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If you are in game lab and enter a [ watcher in the watcher box, the screen goes blank.
The student is trying to “watch” a list in a for loop, so when he types in the first [ the screen goes blank. I had all students try it to see if was unique to a laptop or if it affected everyone, which it did.
Thank you for checking in.
Hey @mriley ,
Thanks for clarifying! It looks like your students found a bug in Game Lab - we’ve reported it to our engineers. Just FYI - if you encounter any more bugs, it’s a little faster to send an email to support@code.org to have our team look at it =)
In terms of what your student is attempting to do: they should still be able to set a watcher for their list if they put the name of the list in the watcher area, rather than the list itself. I created a quick example program you can look at as a reference.
Hope this helps,
Dan - Code.org Curriculum Writer
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