A bug in first weeks assignment?

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@Mubsi
I am working on first weeks assignment but there seems to be a bug. Also I currently cannot access the course via the website right now.The variable book_title as predefined by you is marked as non defined in section 1a when I fill in: book_title = “Brave New World”. In 1b the same thing when I fill in print(f"Title: {book_title}"). When I run the code in ChatGPT it woks fine and produces the right result. Also I currently cannot access the course via the website anymore. I will pause with the assignment and wait for your response. Thank you very much, Florian

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Coursera seems to be having some technical issues today.

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Hi Florian, the platform is working fine for me, try another browser or clear the cache, sometimes are temporal service problems (server), this photo is from the final task of week 1 as an example

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also you wrote using “Brave New World” with curly (smart) quotes. Python requires straight quotes (" " or ' ') for strings. cheers!!!

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Hi @Florian6,

I’m going to send you a direct message for this, as I need to take a look at your notebook.

Best,
Mubsi

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Yes, I have seen several complaints.

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Florian was running the test cell before the exercise cell, hence getting the error that variable is not defined.

Always remember to run all of cells in a Jupyter notebook sequentially.

For Exercise 1-B:

There was no bug, but I do admit that the markdown text was not particularly accurate. It showed:

Available: <Available Copies>

But the expected print is:

Available Copies: <Available Copies>

Usage of Available Copies was mentioned in the expected output and within the code cell, but I understand the markdown text would have confused this mistake.

I have updated the markdown of the notebook.