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Damian Toczek
4,471 PointsWhy you didn't explain "foreach" and "arrays" before this exercise?
I mean the best practice would be to create a Array from all the "exercises" and then test each inside a foreach loop. People might think that this is the way it's done :x
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Spenser Hale
20,915 PointsHey Damian
It appears you are coming from a background in programming. These courses are designed for any previous experience to jump in and start learning PHP. I wouldn't ask a student just learning about strings and conditionals to understand a foreach or while block. In coding there is a ton to learn of best practices such as to coding to an interface, class autoloading, user input sanitation, don't repeat yourself, and more. But we cannot learn better ways without knowing the basics.
If you didn't like my answer, you can try the teacher, Alena Holligan, or emailing TeamTreeHouse help@teamtreehouse.com.
Timothy Andes
7,897 PointsAs mentioned several times in these lessons, they were only covering scalar types and if/else/elseif conditionals up to this point. Scalar types: bool, int, float, string.
Kevin Gates
15,053 PointsKevin Gates
15,053 PointsAgreed. This is a baby steps process and presuming PHP is someone's first language and wants to help them understand the basic principles before using the more advanced and efficient methods.